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WORKS 

BY 

SAMUEL ¥ARREx\, ESQ,, F.R.S. 



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THE 



LILY AND THE BEE; 

AN APOLOGUE OF 

THE CRYSTAL PALACE. 



BY 

SAMUEL WARREN, F.R.S. 

AUTHOR OF 
'NOW AND THEN," " DIAKY OF A PHYSICIAN," &C., &C., &C. 



Hunc circum innumeree gentes populique volabant. 
Ac veluti in pratis, ubi apes sestate serena 
Floribus insidunt variis, et Candida circum 
Lilia ftinduntur : strepit omnia murmure campus. 

^neid, vi., 706-710. 



NEW YORK; 
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 

82 CLIFF STREET. 

1851. 



I 
1^5 



By BxchaU^e 
Army And Navy 
Av<r,- 13,1929 



PREFACE. 



In the south transept of the Crystal 
Palace, already vanishing from before 
our eyes, may be seen, for a little while 
longer, twin figures of the youthful Al- 
fred the Great and his Mother ; who is 
giving him the Book of Saxon poetry, 
which she had promised to him, among 
her sons, who should soonest learn to 
read it. Historians record that Alfred 
was passionately fond of the Saxon po- 
ems, listening to them eagerly by day 
and by night; and that as he listened, 
the first aspirings of a soaring mind seem 
to have arisen within him. He treasur- 
ed the poems in his memory ; and, dur- 



VI PREFACE. 



ing the whole of his life, poetry contin- 
ued to be his solace and amusement in 
trouble and care. 

In this volume will be found a pre- 
cious relic, which, it is thought, few per- 
sons will contemplate unmoved, of the 
illustrious Monarch's genius ; and much 
of what follows, it has been humbly at- 
tempted to fashion on that exquisite 
model. It seemed to a loyal English- 
man, that in this there was a certain ap- 
propriateness. The name of Alfred is 
very dear to us ;^ and it is equally af- 
fecting and suggestive to imagine, doubt- 
less consistently with the fact, the Hoy- 
al Mother and Son of 1851, gazing at the 

* He was called, in the old time, " Shepherd of his Peo- 
ple," the " Darling of the English !" It was his own mother 
Osburga, and not, as some historians assert, his French step- 
mother, that showed him and his brothers the volume of 
Anglo-Saxon poetry, saying, " He who can first read the 
book, shall have it." — See Sir Francis Palgravk's History 
of England, Anglo-Saxon Period. 



PREFACE. VU 



sculptured images of the Royal Mother 
and Son of a thousand years ago ; with 
the royal Father standing hy, to whom 
the world stands largely indebted for the 
transcendent and profoundly instructive 
spectacle which they have assembled to 
witness. 

In offering to the Public this record of 
impressions which can never be effaced 
from the mind and heart of its Author, 
that instructed Public is approached with 
deep solicitude ; and he ventures to in- 
dulge the hope that, by one who may 
think proper to peruse this Volume, de- 
liberately suspending his judgment till 
the completion of the perusal, both the 
Lily and the Bee may be then found 
speaking with some significance. 

London, Sej)tember, 1851. 



CONTENTS, 



BOOK THE FIRST. 

Page 

THREE GATHERINGS 15 

TP.E VOICE OF ONE UNSEEN 20 

DAY IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE 22 

SlYTY CENTURIES 24 

THE ROYAL THREE 27 

THE SCARED GENII 29 

THE queen's TRANSIT ib. 

THE QUEEN CONTEMPLATING HER EMPIRE 45 

A PLEADING STATUE A BEAUTIFUL SLAVE 50 

SPECTATORS 53 

A BEWILDERED POET 56 

MUSING PHILOSOPHERS — ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN 58 

ATOMS AND STARS 66 

MAN AND HIS DOINGS 70 

MAN AND HIS MAKER 73 

SHAKSPEARE AND DAVID 75 

THE diamond's LEVEE ib. 

THE philosopher's STONE 83 

ANCIENT MONSTERS 87 

THE EARTH AND ITS MAKER 90 

A MUSING ON MUTABILITY 92 

A BEVY OF LADIES BRIGHT 93 

THE LOVELIE LADYE AND THE SPLENDID WORM 94 

CONFUSED SPLENDOR 97 

THE SPEAKING STATUARY 98 

A VISION OF NEWTON 101 

THE BEE ] n3 

LAUGHING IN THE SKIES... 11() 



CONTENTS. 



BOOK THE SECOND. 

Page 
KIGHT IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE 121 

SEVENTY THOUSAND GONE ib. 

nature's asleep 122 

A SOUND 123 

reappearances 124 

O YE DEAD ib. 

THE ROYAL GHOSTS — ALEXANDER, CHARLEMAGNE, AL- 
fred, napoleon 125 

Alfred's hymn 128 

ghosts of philosophers aristotle, roger bacon, 

LORD BACON 131 

a monarch in his lalace 132 

his levee... 133 

a slaughtered sage 135 

children and old ghosts 136 

Galileo's glory and shame 137 

sorely amazed ghosts 139 

newton among pagan and christian ghosts 142 

a darkened ghost 143 

the aw^ful vision 144 

the triple crown 145 

plato and butler their converse 148 

the warrior poet and prometheus 149 

gold in the mist 150 

flight into the past 151 

VISION OF AN IDOL AND A TOWER ib. 

THE FIRST MURDERER 152 

ADAM AND EVE 155 

THE LOVELY MOTHER AND HER LOVELY DAUGHTER 157 

A SON BEFORE HIS FIRST PARENTS ib. 

A GLIMPSE THROUGH SIX THOUSAND YEARS 159 

THE MOVING SHADOW 163 

SPIRITS OP THEM THAT SLEEP 164 

GEMS SEEN, AND ONE UNSEEN 166 

THE AWFUL VOICE 167 



CONTENTS. Xi 



LIGHT LOST 169 

A HORROR 170 

RETURNING LIGHT 172 

A SCOFFER AND THE BOOK 174 

DEPARTING SHADOWS 177 

MORN IN THE PALACE— 

A SPARROW 178 

A POOR SOUL CALLING ON MANKIND 179 

FLOWERS ASLEEP 181 

THE LILY 183 

HER MESSAGE ^. 184 

A SON AND A FATHER 190 

THE DISAPPEARANCE 191 



NOTES. 

NO. I. -p. 37. NAPOLEON AND LEIBNITZ IN EGYPT 195 

II. 38. THE MODERN PHARAOH IN THE RED SEA ih. 

III. 39. SCIPIO'S TEARS 196 

IV. 42. THE ESQUIMAUX QUESTION 197 

V. 46. PRINCE ALBERT ON THE MISSION AND 

DESTINY OF ENGLAND lb. 

VI. 48. THE NEW MEDITERRANEAN 198 

VII. 86. THE philosopher's stone 199 

VIII. 88. ANCIENT MONSTERS 201 

IX. 109. THE BEE MYSTERY ih. 

X. 111. THE BEE AND THE INFINITESIMAL CAL- 
CULUS 202 

XI. 138. GALILEO AMONG THE CARDINALS ih. 

XII. 139. ARISTOTLE ON ANAXAGORAS 203 

XIII. 140. THE ANGEL AND ADAm's ASTRONOMICAL 

DISCOURSE ih. 

XIV. 143. THE INFIDEL PHILOSOPHER 204 

XV. 147. AN EXTINGUISHED CONSTELLATION 206 

XVI. 150. GOLDEN TRUTH IN THE MIST OF MYTHOL- 
OGY 207 



BOOK THE FIRST, 



THE 



LILY AND THE BEE; 



BOOK THE FIRST. 

Four thousand years ago, said The Voice, the 
whole family of man was gathered together on 
the plain of Shinar. They spoke often, in one 
language, of the awful Deluge which had hap- 
pened but a centmy before ; and pointed out, 
one to another, the traces of it still every 
where visible. Those who had been in the 
Ark would start from their sleep, as in dreams 
they heard the roar of the Waters, and again 
beheld their desolate expanse. Yet was the 
dread lesson lost upon the ungrateful and pre- 
sumptuous hearts of those who had not been 
whelmed under the waters. Minded to dis- 
honor Him who had spared them, while de- 
stroying their fellows, and to frustrate His all- 
wise purposes, they would build a city, and a 



IG THE LILY AXD THE BEE. 

tower^' whose top might reach unto Heaven, 
and prevent their being scattered abroad upon 
the face of the whole earth. Then was pre- 
cipitated upon them the event which they had 
sought to avert. Their labors were interrupt- 
ed from on high; their language was con- 
founded ; and they were scattered abroad from 
thence upon the face of all the earth, bearing 
about with them, even until now, the badge 
of their punishment and humiliation. 

Sixteen hundred years afterward, near the 
scene of that impiety und folly, occurred a 
great gathering of the self-same Family, in the 
plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon, at 
the bidding of a mighty monarch. There he 
had gathered together the princes, the govern- 
ors, and the captains, the judges, the treas- 
urers, and the counselors, the sheriffs, and all 
the rulers of the provinces, and all the people, 
nations, and languages. In the midst of them 

* This Babylonish Tower, says the philosophic Schlegel, 
has been, in every age, a figure of the heaven-aspiring 
edifice of lordly arrogance, which is, sooner or later, sure to 
be struck down, and scattered afar, by the arm of the divine 
Nemesis. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 17 

glittered a golden image, which Nebuchadnez- 
zar the King had set up, and had come forth 
to dedicate. And a herald cried aloud, com- 
manding all people, nations, and languages, 
that at what time they heard the sound of the 
cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, 
and all kinds of music, they should, on pain 
of death, fall down and worship that golden 
image. The impious despot was obeyed : the 
people, the nations, and the languages, bowed 
in base idolatry before the golden image that 
Nebuchadnezzar the King had set up ; all but 
three noble youths, worshipers of the G-od 
whom their Monarch was dishonoring, and 
who, in his rage and fury, cast them forth- 
with, but vainly, into a burning fiery furnace, 
saying. Who is that Clod that shall deliver you 
out of my hands ? 

Two thousand four hundred years have since 
rolled on ; and behold ! in this present year of 
our Lord, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, indi- 
cating the lustrous epoch from which Christian 
people now reverently reckon time, in this lit- 
tle western Isle, unknown to the haughty Bab- 
B 



18 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

ylonian, whose plaoe^ has been swept with the 
besom of destruction, occurs another gathering 
of that very self-same family : of all people, and 
nations, and languages, on a royal invitation, 
and for a royal dedication. A Christian Queen, 
on whose Empire setteth not the sun ; who had 
read in Holy Writ of the plains of Shinar, and 
of Dura, went forth with her Consort and her 
Offspring, attended by her princes, her nobles, 
her statesmen, her warriors, her judges, her 
philosophers, amid a mighty multitude : not to 
inaugurate an idol, not to Dedicate an Image, 
and impiously command it to be worshiped ; 
but, in the hallowing presence of His ministers 
whom Nebuchadnezzar had dishonored, to bow 
before Him, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, 
who, from the place of His habitation, looketh 
down upon all the inhabitants of the earth, and 
understandeth all their works ; to offer humble 

* I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of Hosts — and 
cut off from Babylon the name. 1 will also make it a pos- 
session for the bittern, and pools of water, and I will sweep 

it with the besom of destruction. This is the rejoicing city, 

that dwelt carelessly ; that said in her heart, I am, and there 
is none besides me : how is she become a desolation ! — Isaiah, 
xiv., 22, 23; Zeph., ii., 15. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 19 

adoration and thanksgiving for His mercies, 
marvelous and numberless, vouchsafed to her- 
self and to His people committed to her charge ; 
in Whom she ever hath affiance, seeking His 
honor and glory : to cement, as far as in her 
lay, a universal brotherhood, and promote 
among all nations, unity, peace, and concord ; 
to recall great nations from the devastations of 
"war, to the delights of peace ; to exhibit a 
mighty spectacle, equaled but by its specta- 
tors : humbling, elevating, expanding, solem- 
nizing the soul of every beholder capable of 
thought, purified with but even the faintest 
tincture of devoutness : speaking to great minds 
— ^to statesman, philosopher, divine — in accents 
sublime : telling of Man, in his relations to the 
earth ; Man, in his relations to men ; Man, in 
his relations to Grod. 

Yes, to a Palace, risen like an exhalation, 
goes the Q^ueen, mindless of predicted peril — 
standing within it, the dazzling centre of a na- 
tion's love and anxiety ; with stately serenity, 
beside her illustrious and philosophic Spouse, 
and illustrious Offspring; her eyes reverently 



20 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

downcast, while one voice only sounds, humbly 
uttering prayer and praise — Not unto us, not 
unto us, but unto Thy name be all the glory ! 
- — amid all that is lovely, great, and pious, from 
all lands ; whose eyes are moistened, whose 
hearts are swelling : anon peals forth, in sol- 
emn harmony, Hallelujah !* 

There stand members of the scattered family 
of Man : come from East, come from West ; 
come from North, come from South ; from the 
Old World, from the New : and, glittering all 
around, trophies of industry and peace from 
every land, wafted over vast oceans : results of 
Toil grown skillful, after six thousand years. 

— Then hie thee to that Palace, said The 
Voice : mingle among thy fellows, unheeded 
by the gay and great. Be thou but reverently 
humble, and I will be with thee. One Unseen, 
yet seeing all : what I will show, the self-suf- 

* Now therefore, O God, we thank Thee ; we praise Thee ; 
and entreat Thee so to overrule this assembly of many na- 
tions, that it may tend to the advancement of Thy glory, to 
the diffusion of Thy holy Word, and to the increase of gen- 
eral prosperity, by producing peace and good will among the 
diifereut races of mankind. — Prayer of the Archbishop of Can- 
terbury. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 21 

ficient spirit shall never see ; being with quick- 
est sensuous eye, quite blind ; yet, all the while, 
before a mystic mirror, brightly reflecting the 
Past, darkly the Future. But thou, unnoticed 
one ! perchance despised — behold ! ponder ! 

Hie thee ! haste I It vanisheth. It vanish- 
eth ! and melts into the Past. 

^ .AS. jx. 

W •«* T^ 

There was standing^^ without the Crystal 
Palace, in a pauper dress, a gray-haired harm- 
less idiot, gazing at the vast structure, vacant- 
ly. Grently arresting me as I passed, he point- 
ed with eager, gleeful mystery, uttering inco- 
herent sounds, to the door which he was not 
permitted to enter. 

Poor soul ! said The Yoice, mournfully, this 
banquet is not spread for thee I 

I left him without, gibbering to a pitying 
sentinel, and entered with a spirit saddened. 

* The oppressive incident above related actually occurred 
to the author, producing an impression never to be effaced. 



22 THE LILY AND THE BEE, 



-DAY, IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE ! 



There was music echoing through the trans- 
parent fabric. Fragrant flowers and graceful 
shrubs were blooming, and exhaling sweet 
odors. Fountains were flashing and sparkling 
in the subdued sunlight : in living sculpture 
were suddenly seen the grand, the grotesque, 
the terrible, the beautiful: objects of every 
form and color imaginable, far as the eye could 
reach, were dazzlingly intermingled : and there 
were present sixty thousand sons and daugh- 
ters of Adam,^ passing and repassing, cease- 
lessly: bewildered charmingly; gliding amid 
bannered Nations — through country after coun- 
try renowned in ancient name, and great in 
modern : civilized and savage. From the far 
East and West, misty in distance, faintly 
echoed martial strains, or the solemn anthem ! 
— The Soul was approached through its 



* At three o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, the 15th 
of July, there were present in the Crystal Palace sixty-one 
thousand six hundred and forty persons. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 23 

highest senses, flooded with excitement ; all 
its faculties were appealed to at once, and it 
sank, for a while, exhausted, overwhelmed. 

AVTio can describe that astounding spectacle ? 
Lost in a sense of what it is, who can think 
what it is like ? Philosopher and poet are 
alike agitated, and silent ; gaze whithersoever 
they may, all is marvelous and affecting ; stir- 
ring new thoughts and emotions, and awaken- 
ing oldest memories and associations — past, 
present, future, linked together mystically, 
each imaging the other, kindling faint sugges- 
tion, with sudden startle. And where stood 

they ? Scarce nine times had the moon per- 
formed her silent journey round the earth, since 
grass grew, refreshed with dew and zephyr, 
upon the spot on which was now a crystal pal- 
ace, then not even imaged in the mind of its 
architect — ^now teeming with things rich and 
rare from wellnigh every spot of earth on the 
terraqueous globe, telling, oh ! grand and over- 
whelming thought ! of the uttermost industry 
and intellect of man, in every clime, of every 
hue, of every speech, since his Almighty Maker 



24 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

placed him upon the earth ; man, made in His 
own image, after His likeness, a little lower than 
the angels, and crowned with glory and honor ; 
given dominion over all the earth and sea, and 
all that are in them, and in the air — ^that move, 
and are ; ever since the holy calm and rest of 
the first Sabbath : since the dark hour in which 
he was driven, disobedient and woe-stricken, 
out of Eden — doomed in the sweat of his face 
to eat bread, in sorrow, all the days of his life, 
till he returned into the ground, cursed for his 
sake : the dread sentence echoing in his ears. 
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return \ 
spirit, convey me, a while, from this scene 
of mystery, this so restless sea of my fellow- 
beings let me alone, apart, meditate hum- 
bly, reverently. 

Sixty centuries are sweeping past me. 
Their sound is in my ear, their dread is on 
my soul. The air — the dust— is instinct with 
LIFE, the life of man, speaking to the soliI of 
all the hopes, and fears, and agonies, delights, 
and woes, and cares that have agitated the 
countless millions, my fellows, descended from 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 25 

our fallen Father, the First Adam, and like him 
retLirned to the dust : whither I, and all his 
sons, my brethren, strangers ! and sojourners ! 
as all our fathers were I — are journeying fast. 

0, spare me a little, before I go hence, 

and be no more seen ! 

— I faintly breathe an air, spiritual and 
rare ; Mind all around diffused ; man rises be- 
fore me, every where, man ! in his manifesta- 
tion and misfortune, multiform ; mysterious 

in his doings and his destiny. Yes, I, poor 

Being, trembling and amazed, am also man ; 
part of that mighty unity ; one, but one ! still 
one I of that vast family to whom belongs the 
earth ;^ still holding, albeit unworthily, our 
charter of lordship. Tremble, child of the 
dust I remembering from "Whom came that 
charter, wellnigh forfeited. Tremble ! stand 
in awe I yet hope ; for He knoweth thy frame ; 
He remembereth that thou art but dust ; and, 
like as a father pitieth his own children, even 
so is merciful unto them that fear Him. 

* All the whole heavens ax'e the Lord's : the earth bath 
He given to the children of men. — Psalm cxv., 16. 



26 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Return, with lightened heart, with cheerful 
look, said The Yoice, benignantly, and read a 
scroll, suddenly unrolled, of the doings of thy 
race upon the earth. 

Again within the Nave— all bright ! all beau- 
tiful ! — Hail ! "Welcome ! brethren, sisters all ! 
Come hither trustfully, from every land and 
clime ! All hail ! ye loveliest ! bravest ! wisest ! 
best ! Of every degree ! complexion ! speech ! 
One and the self-same blood in all our veins !* 
Our hearts, fashioned alike ! Alike feeling, 
loving, admiring ; with the same senses and 
faculties perceiving and judging what the same 
energies have produced ! Stay ! Has my ear, 
suddenly quickened, penetrated to the prime- 
val language, through all its variations, since 
the scattering and confusion of Shinar ? 
rare unity in multiplicity, uniformity in end- 
less variety ! 

Yonder comes The Queen ! Not hideous 

* God, that made the world, and all things therein, hath 
made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the 
face of the earth, and hath determined the bounds of their 
habitation, and is not far from every one of us. — Acts, xvii., 
24-27. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 27 

shot, nor shell, tears open a crimson path ; but 
one is melting before her — melting with love 
and loyalty. All unguarded ! No nodding 
plume, nor gleaming sabre, to startle or appal : 
she is moving amid myriads — silent myriads : 
unheard by her, but not unfelt, their thoughts, 
fondly flowing while she passes by :* 

0, all from foreign lands : uncovered be a 
while ; behold a solemn sight — 

A nation's heart in prayer : 

And hear their prayer, 

Grod save the Queen. 

And Grod save thee, too, wise and pious 
Prince, Her Spouse ! Well may thine eye look 
round well pleased, and with a modest dignity, 
on a scene designed by thee : sprung into be- 
ing under thy princely fostering ; an enterprise 
right royal, nobler far than ever Prince before 
accomplished : all bloody feats of war eclipsed 
— ^by this of Peace, all-potent peace. glori- 
ous war to wage : Science and Truth, with 
Error, Ignorance, and Prejudice lying all 

* The unbought loyalty of the heart, the cheap defense of 
nations. — Edmund Burke. 



28 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

prostrate here : vanquished : would it were, 
to rise no more ! And thou here, too, young 
Prince, their first-born son : thou hope of En- 
gland : future King : G-od bless thee. Prince : 
G-od grant thee many many years, wherein to 
learn, by bright example, how to wear a crown, 
and sway a sceptre. Look well around thee : 
think of Her whose hand is holding thine ; and 
that such scene as this, thou never, never wilt 
behold again. Eead then this lesson, well ! 
Illustrious Three, our hearts yearn, seeing you 
stand before the image of your ancestor, Al- 
fred :^ the G-reat : the G-ood : the "Wise. 

"What thoughts are yours, while gazing at 
the glorious pair. Mother and Son? Young 
Prince ! look well on that young Prince ; re- 
member : resemble ! In your veins runs the 
rich blood of Alfred and Charlemagne. 

Methinks I see the Queen look grave, while 



* As far as the author has been able to ascertain, the fact 
seems to be established that both Queen Victoria and H. R. 
H. Prince Albert can show a direct descent from Alfred the 
Great; and her majesty also from Charlemagne. The cor- 
rectness of this statement has been obligingly certified to the 
author by a gentleman of experience in such matters. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 29 



passing slowly down the wondrous nave. Flag 
after flag hangs over her, emblems of Nations, 
great and glorious some, all friendly : all here, 
receiving Queenly, Princely welcome : therein, 
the Nation's. The very G-enius of each State 
is here : beauteous, but timid — ^trembling, as 
though affrighted with recent sounds and 
sights of blood and tumult : even here, scarce 
reassured I But, gentle ones I breathe freely 
here ! As ye have left behind your vesture 
darkened, it may be, and crimson-spotted, and 
donned attire so gay and graceful, so vanish 
fear from your lovely countenances ! In your 
own Sister's Palace, away with terror and dis- 
trust ! Start not, as though your ears yet 
caught frightful sounds of cries ! and musket- 
ry ! shot and shell ! See here, all peace and 
love I Britannia passes by : she greets you 
fondly ; embracing with a sister's tenderness. 
Where is The Q,ueen ? In Spain ! and yet, 
within her own dominions ! She is standing 
on the dizzy height of Gribraltar, impregna- 
ble, tremendous ; and tranquilly surveying the 
kingdoms of two sister Queens, in East and 



30 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

West : herself on British, ground, won by Brit- 
ish valor, and so retained, and guarded. Then 
does she muse of Tubal's progeny ?^ Of dy- 
nasties long passed away — Phoenician, Cartha- 
ginian, Roman sway : of Yandal, Groth, and 
Saracen : — Crescent and Cross. Sees she the 
passes where glittered the standards of Charle- 
magne, and echo in her ears the bugles of Ron- 
cesvalles ? Thinks she of mighty ones gone by 
— all, all, but one : of Hannibal : of Scipio : 
Pompey : Csesar : Napoleon : her own Wel- 

lingtont and sadly looks on hill, and vale, 

and stream, crimsoned with Spanish, French, 
and British blood : sees she the myriad bay- 
onets bristling every where, and flashing sa- 
bres ; and hears the deadly volley rolling, and 
thunder of artillery — 

* The original settlers in Spain are supposed to have been 
the progeny of Tubal, the fifth son of Japheth. 

t Like their great predecessors in the wars of Rome and 
Carthage, these two illustrious chiefs rolled the chariot of 
victory over its surface, and, missing each other, severally 
conquered eveiy other opponent, till their own renown filled 
the world, and Europe, in breathless suspense, awaited the 
issue of their conflict on another shore. — Alison, vol. viii., 
p. 397. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 31 

Vimeira ! 
Torres Vedras ! 
Corunna ! 
Talavera ! 
Salamanca ! 
Yittoria I — 
Trafalgar ! 

France ! noLle, sensitive ! our ancient 

rival, now our proudly - splendid, emulous 
friend ! Our Queen in gallant France ! But 
with no fear, ye chivalrous ! Behold the royal 
Lady, who, scarcely seated on her throne, 
quickly responded to your grand request, giv- 
ing you hack your glorious dead, then, after 
life's fitful fever sleeping well, in her domain, 
in ocean far away; and now upon your soil, 
his own loved France, sleepeth Napoleon ! 
His ear heard not the wailing peal thrilling 
through the o'ercharged hearts of his mourn- 
ing veterans, whom neither did he see : nor 
did he hear the mingled thunderings of our 
artillery, yours, and our own, in blended sol- 
emn friendliness, honoring his mighty mem- 



82 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

ory.* Ye, Frenchmen, saw, and heard, weep- 
ing nobly 'mid the melting melody : and we 
were looking on, with throbbing heart. See, 
then, our Queen. She wears a crown, and 
holds a sceptre : emblem of majesty, of power, 
of love, alone. — See, see, embodied to your 
sight I England's dear Epitome, and radiant 
Representative ! all hearts in hers ; and hers, 
in all : Britain, Britannia : Bright Victoria, all ! 
— ^A sadness on her brow I thinking, per- 
chance, of royal exiles, sheltered in her realm : 
it may be of a captive, too, in yours : he no 
Jugurtha ! brave : honorable : noble : broken- 
hearted oh ! French — ye proud and gener- 
ous 



* Le gouveniemeut de sa majeste espere que I'empresse- 
ment, qu'il met a repondre k cette demande, sera considere 
en France comnie une pi'euve du desir de sa niajesll d'efFa- 
cer jusqu'a la derniere trace de ces animosites nationales qui, 
pendant la vie de TEmpereur, avaient pousse les deux nations 
k la guerre. Le gouvernement de sa majest6 espere que de 
pareils sentimens, s'ils existaient encore, seraient ensevelis k 
jamais, dans le tombeau destine a recevoir les restes mortels 
de Napoleon. — Dispatch of Lord Palmerston, 9th May, 
1840. These are words, justly remarks the historian, of dig- 
nified generosity, worthy of the chivalrous days of a great 
nation. — Alison, vol. xiv., p. 198. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 33 

Passed into Belgium, fair and gay — 
Yonder the plain of Waterloo. Her cheek 
is flushed : anon grows sad. There approach- 
es a mourner — a royal mourner. His air is se- 
rene, but sorrowful : his cheek is wasted ; and 
his eye tells of a sorely smitten heart. His 
hand yet feels the pressure of those lilied fin- 
gers which clasped it fondly, gently, at last 
unconsciously : and he sees still those eyes 
which gazed upon him tenderly, even through 
the shadows of death 

In busy sea-diked Holland now ! — Me- 
thinks she tells her son of a New Holland — a 
fifth continent, in a distant ocean, fourteen 
thousand miles away : ruled by her sceptre. 

—And now, grown grave, she whispers of 

an era, and a Prince, great, glorious, of im- 
mortal memory.* 

* By the sagacity and energy of that great man, William 
III., was closed the bloody struggle for civil and religious 
liberty which had so long been convulsing this country, and 
there were secured to us the inestimable advantages of our 
Constitution and of our Protestant faith. — Prince Albert, 
at St Martin's Hall, 17th June, 1851. 

c 



34 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

In Hanover a while — sadly speaking of a 
royal Cousin, who, were he in the Crystal 
Palace, could see naught of its splendors; 
destined yet to rule a kingdom. 

Lingering in Saxony ! telling of Luther to 
her son : methinks she sees the giant spirit 
standing defiant, before Imperial Diet : scorn- 
fully burning Papal Bull : — kindling the flame 

which man shall never quench* protected 

by a Prince potent and pious — as Wickliffe 
here by her own Royal progenitor of Lancas- 
ter ! And then she points her son, in proud 
silence, to his Father's home, ancient, illus- 
trious, and firm in Faith. 

Switzerland ! Bright, breezy Switzerland ! 

* I know and am certain, said this wonderful man, that 
Jesus Christ our Lord lives and reigns ; and, buoyant in this 
knowledge and confidence, I will not fear a hundred thou- 
sand popes. My doctrines will stand, and the pope will 

fall, in spite of all the powers of air, earth, and hell. They 
have provoked me to war : they shall have it. They scorned 
the peace I pfFered them : peace they shall have no longer. 
God shall look to it, which of the two shall first retire from 
the struggle-T-the pope or Luther. This was said three cen- 
turies and a half aaro. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 35 

Land of the beautiful, land of the free ! With 
mountains majestic, wearing snowy coronets, 
dazzling all of rosy hue — and lovely spreading 
vales, studded with cottages all blossom-hid — 
with deep blue waters, imaging bluer skies. 

Oh, awful in avalanche ! on whose dread 

verge bloom roses and myrtles, unchilled, un- 
scared. foaming flashing cataract, and fear- 
ful precipice, where glances the gleeful, scarce- 
seen chamois, safe from fell eye of hunter ! 
happy, happy Switzerland ! Where meet the 
Seasons in concord strange, and gayly dance, 
with melting eye yet tremulous limb, mid ice, 
and fruits, and snow, and flowers, while zephyr, 
scent-laden, plays gayly round. Our Queen in 
Switzerland! — forgetting state and splendor 
a while, softly to sink into enchanting solitude. 
land of the free, the pious, and brave — of 
Tell and Zwingle ! a Queen of the free and 
the fearless is breathing your balmy air — but 
quick to return to her own sweet sceptered isle. 

Rome she passed by, and with, methought, 
averted eye. There, brooding Darkness spreads 
his iealous wings 



36 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

G-REECE — Greece ! The Q,ueen in Greece ! 
And thinking of the radiant past ! — Of Mara- 
thon and Salamis ! of wisdom, eloquence, and 
song — all silenced now. The Oracles are 
dumb. No voice or hideous hum runs through 
the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo 
from his shrine can no more divine, with hol- 
low shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 

"What fates were hers, since Japheth's son 
set foot upon her soil — Javan, to Otho I^ — 
Marathon, to Navarino I 

And now, amid the isles where burning 
Sappho loved and sung, gliding o'er Ionian 
waters, mellow sunlight all around, and gently- 
thinking of the days gone by. 

Protectrix. 

England in Greece — in Christian Greece ! 
Victoria there ! But not in warlike form : 
only, 

Lover of peace, and balanced rule. 

* The first inhabitants of Greece are believed to have beem 
the progeny of Javan, the fourth son of Japheth : that of hw 
sixth son, Meshech, formed the aborigines of Italy. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 37 

In dusky, rainless Egypt now ! — Mysterious 
memories come crowding round — from misty 
Mizraim=^ to Ibrahim — 

Abraham ! — Joseph ! — Pharaoh's Plagues ! 
— Shepherd Kings ! — Sesostris ! — 

Cambyses ! Xerxes ! Alexander ! Ptolemies ! 
Antony I Cleopatra ! Caesar — 

Isis ! — Osiris ! — Temples ! — Sphinxes ! — 
Obelisks — 

Alexandria ! — 

The Pyramids ! — 

The Nile I— 

Napoleon !t — Nelson ! — 

Behold, my son, this ancient wondrous 
country— destined scene of mighty doings — 
perchance of conflict, deadly, tremendous, such 
as the world has never seen, nor warrior 
dreamed of. Even now the attracting centre 
of world-wide anxieties. On this spot see set- 
tled the eyes of sleepless Statesmen 

Lo ! a British engineer, even while I speak, 

* Mizrairn, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah, was 
the first of the Pharaohs. 

i See Note, No. I. — " Napoleon and Leibnitz on Egypt." 



38 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean : 
Alexandria and Cairo made as one 

Behold Napoleon, deeply intent on the great 
project ! See him, while the tide of the Red 
Sea is out, on the self-same site traversed three 
thousand years before by the children of Isra- 
el He drinks at the Wells of Moses, at the 

foot of Mount Sinai -He returns — and so 

the tide The shades of night approach 

Behold the hero just whelmed beneath the 
waters — even like the ancient Pharaoh 

Had such event been willed on high=^ 



In Tunis ! All simple, rough, barbaric. 
Art thou sole representative of Carthage, and 
her ancient glory ?t And thinks our Queen 
suddenly of the Tyrian Queen, and her resplen- 
dent city, Rome's rival in the empire of the 
world — Carthage and her state, whose policy 
the Stagyrite approved : a people wise, grave, 

* See Note, No. II. — <'The Modern Pharaoh in the Red 
Sea." 
t Tunis is within only a few miles' distance of the site of 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 39 

and powerful ; sending forth colonies ; with 
distant islands trafficking ; even with this isle 
of ours ; with England, and with France ? 
Muses our sighing Q,ueen of Rome and Car- 
thage ; rival Queens ; competitors for empire ; 
ambitious ; of deadly hate ; of treacheries and 
perfidies ; of sieges ; battles ; seas of blood ; 
of noble Hannibal ; great Scipio ; fell Cato ? 
Tunis I wast thou scared by the fearful fires 
consuming Carthage ? Didst thou see the 
flame and hear the shrieks ?* 

And hear the withering curse, see Scipio's 
pitying tears, and listen to his mournful proph- 
ecy of fate reserved for bloody and perfidious 
Rome ? 

And Rome, triumphant in her joy and pride, 
exulting over her fallen rival — crushed — all 
traces from the earth razed ruthlessly ; and 
curse pronounced on all who should rebuild, or 
her hated memory revive — 

Where art thou, Rome ? Still lingering on 
the earth, in pigmy representative — victim of 

* See Note, No. III.—" Scipio's Tears." 



40 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

fate ignobler infinitely far than she thy van- 
quished rival perishing in flame ! Rome ! 
Carthage ! — where all your idle strifes, your 
jealousies ! 

Thou, too, old Tunis, hast seen vicissitude ! 

Solomon the Magnificent ! Selim ! — The 
Emperor ! 

Thou sawest ten thousand Christian slaves 
set glorious free ! 

Hast thou forgotten Blake — crumbling thy 
castles with his cannonade ? 

Turkey ! — 

Beautiful Constantinople ! well may Queen- 
ly eye rest upon thee rapturously. Enchant- 
ing City, hail ! 

Ever bathed in ocean's breeze ! Thy ter- 
raced heights all emerald-hued, rising success- 
ive from the blue waves to the sky ! 

Thy glistening domes, mosques, minarets ! 

Thy lovely waters, studded by snowy sails 
of boat and barque — 

Queen of the East, on seven-hilled throne, 
Thou passionately wooed of monarchs and con- 
querors ! — 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 41 

The Macedonian — Napoleon — Muscovite. 
^All hail ! 

A peaceful Queen is looking at you now, 
nor dreams of conquest ! 

Persia ! 

China !* — Awoke from centuries' celestial 

slumber by the thunder of our guns 

Barbarian Queen I what dost thou there ? 
There, also, waves thy Flag proudly o'er 
thy people, and in thy territory, too ! 
To the North — away ! away ! 
Denmark ! 

Sweden ! — 
Norway ! 

Iceland ! — 

Lapland ! — 
Stay, illustrious Three ! 
Are ye chilled with your Northern flight ? 
Queen, a moment pause in this thy marvel- 
ous pilgrimage ! 

* Fohi, the supposed founder of the Chinese Empire, is 
considered, by some, to be Noah. 



42 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Thou wilt not despise the doings of the 
poor Esquimaux, drearily shivering under Arc- 
tic ice : clad in the skins of creatures of the 
deep : and in icy cavern, illumed by flickering 
Northern Lights, gorging on offal, or dream- 
ing of the hunt of hear and wolf. — Queen, 
Princes ! illustrious of the Earth ! behold in 
this sad soul one of the scattered family of 
Adam ! He is our brother ! Your brother, 
great ones I The brother of all Queens, Prin- 
ces, Emperors, and Potentates. 

The same blood, trickling through his chil- 
ly veins, through yours bounds blithely. 

And he hath heard the Sacred Yol time read, 
and felt : and wept : and owned its hallowing 
influence !=^ 

Prussia, proud, learned, thoughtful, martial 
— ever like steel-clad warrior, gleaming, armed 
cap-a-pie, ready for fight.t 

* See Note, No. IV. — ' The Esquimaux Question." 
t In setting out for the Prussian campaign, such was Na- 
poleon's estimate of troops raised in the school of Frederic 
the Great, that he frequently said to his assembled officers at 
Mayence, *• We shall have earth to move in this war !" 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 43 

Victoria greets The King — 

Hail, sponsor of her son, our future King 



Thy face is anxious : and thy troubled eye 
scans fearfully thy realms, settling but now 
from shock of revolution. 

Near Austria. 

On its confines, standing the grim Radetzky I 
On his lips are withering words* — but from 
his neck depends the Lamb,t gently : all un- 
conscious of its office. 

From behind his Queen, modest in greatness, 
gazes upon the Austrian, Wellington. Behold 
the white-haired warrior - statesman, eagle- 
eyed, scanning the features of his aged broth- 
er$ in arms 

He wears not the crimson vestments of war, 
nor the emblem of command ; nor by his side 



* Soldaten ! der kampf wird kurz sein — Soldiers ! the 
work will be short ! The words are engraved deeply on the 
base of the pedestal of the cast-iron statue. 

t The Order of the Golden Fleece. 

t Field-marshal Radetzky is eighty-five years of age, hav- 
ing been born in the year 1766 ; the Duke of Wellington in 
1769. 



44 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

glitters the sword which freed the world, into 
its scabbard sternly thrust, at Waterloo. 

"What whispers the Queen to her Welling- 
ton ? And he to his puissant Mistress ? 
— Of a vast Empire, thrilling still with mor- 
tal throes ; — dismembered, but for mighty 
Muscovite, summoned to aid by an Imperial 
brother in mortal thraldom. Of strategy pro- 
found : encircling coils, tremendous, crushing 
revolt :^ wasting anxieties, from mortal eye 
concealed, or sought to be : all blessedly un- 
known to Her, now listening to her wise war- 
rior-statesman's words. 

In vast, mysterious Russia, see Her now. 
She leans upon the arm of friendly Czar. 
Madam, quoth he, I obey your gentle sum- 
mons. 

* The general plan of the vast military operations of Rus- 
sia, in Hungary, in the spring of 1849, was, to form a com- 
plete circle of the whole territory: that circle rapidly to 
converge so as to compress the insurrection within a ring of 
armies. There w^as a perfect unity of purpose in the execu- 
tion of this prodigious plan, which extinguished the insurrec- 
tion; and then the emperor's troops (150,000 in number) re- 
turned to Russia. — See The Times of the day. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 45 

I send to your Palace a sample of my peo- 
ple's skills a many-tongued race, a sixteenth 
of the family of Man — and produce of my ter- 
ritories, stretching over a seventh of the terres- 
trial surface of the globe. Northern Asia is 
mine : half Europe, and a great domain in 
Northern America. There my possessions ad- 
join yours : as yours, those of the Republic 
which has sprung from you. 

Then thought the silent Queen, of all that 
owned her gently-potent sway, the wide world 
o'er. 

Of her own dear sceptered Isle, England! 
a precious stone, set in the silver sea ! this 
land of such dear souls ! this dear, dear land !* 

Then, of her dominions in the North, the 
South, the East, the. "West. 

Old World, and New — 

Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Austral- 
asia — 



* Richard II., Act ii., Scene 1. It need hardly be intima- 
ted to the reader that he may recognize expressions in the 
text borrowed from various writers, ancient and modern, as 
they happened to occur to the author's memory. 



46 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Of Continents — 

Of Islands, girdling the globe — 

A sixth of Adam's family,^ obedient to her 
rule — 

Rule of a Christian Queen — 

To civilize ! 

To free ! protect ! 

To illume !— 

To Christianize !t — 

Methought she whispered solemnly — A 
mighty mission, Emperor, each ! 

Anon she points her son to India, distant, 
dazzling, vast — 

The coveted of conquering Potentates, in 
old and modern time ; but by Heaven as- 
signed, to England — 

Of victories, on victories — 

Of valor and sagacity profound — 



* According to the latest and best authorities, the popula- 
tion of the world is about a thousand and seventy-five mill- 
ions ; and the British dominions now embrace, since the re- 
cent acquisitions in India, one hundred and seventy mill- 
ion OF SOULS ! 

t See Note, No. V. — " Prince Albert on the Mission and 
Destiny of England." 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 47 

Of sullen Moloch : superstition : slaughter : 
and horrible idolatry — 

And then she spoke of Canaan, and the Is- 
raelites — 

And reverently echoed Holy "Writ — 

We have heard with our ears, Grod, our 
fathers have told us, how thou hast driven oait 
the heathen with thy hand, and planted them 
in : how thou hast destroyed the nations, and 
cast them out. 

For they got not the land in possession 
through their own sword, neither was it their 
own arm that helped them ; 

But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and 
the light of Thy countenance, because Thou 
hadst a favor unto them. 

Thou art my King, Grod. 

Of Australasia — 

There Islands huge, and a great Conti- 
nent 

There proudly flies Her flag, in Eastern — 
and in Southern Ocean — glistening — far, far 
away — ; 



48 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

While saileth thitherward, from these loved 
shores, each barque so richly freighted with 
our loves — 

Bearing fond but firmest hearts, and leav- 
ing tender ones behind it may be never 

more to meet on earth 

0, God go with you, brethren, sisters dear! 

Bearing the Holy Book — our Laws, Relig- 
ion, loyalty I 

Tour Queen, that lovely Majesty, is think- 
ing of you all : 

Dear to her gentle heart, her people dis- 
tant — 

No distance knows allegiance, loyalty, and 
Queenly love, and power. 



O'er oceans sweeping breathlessly — a dizzy 

flight — wellnigh the planet o'er — 

Behold in Canada, the Queen — its Queen — 
Calmly she views her vast domain, a ninth 

part of earth's surface !* 

* See Note, No, VI,—" The New Mediterranean." 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 49 

Grrand, beautiful, and boundless in re- 
source ! 

Loyal and true her sons I reserved for sig- 
nal destiny ! 

Ten thousand miles of ocean can not melt 
the links of love binding their brave hearts to 
their Queen — 

All hail, ye hardy sons of enterprise, and 
brethren dear I — 

She gazes proudly — ^thoughtfully 



Down, down the wondrous Nave ! Through 
the old kingdoms of the Earth, swelling yet 
with Eevolution's surge — see, The New 
World ! 

How now ! "Where is She now ? 

Methought her course was Westerly* — 

The West hath settled in the East — How 
passing strange ! 

Confusion all ! — ^North, South, East, West, 
New, Old, Past, Present — huddled all together ! 

* In the Crystal Palace, the eastern extremity of the nave 
js appropriated to the United States. 

D 



50 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Here, in the East, She stands : yet in Amer- 
ica ! — 

Hail, England's lusty oifspring! All hail! 
Ye stalworth sons and daughters fair, of Anglo- 
Saxon ancestry ! 

In your new Aome magnificent, even yet 
scarce settled ! 

The Q,ueen of England greets you well I 

And such her thoughts the while, as but an 
English Q,ueen can know — 

She stands in contemplation grave. 

Skilled though She be, in Queenly lore. She 
can not read your destiny. 

Sees she a cloud, the South o'ershadowing ? 

— Brethren, ye bring us a form of Beauty, 
and in chains ! 

Look ye yourselves upon her loveliness ! 

Ponder her thrilling tale of grief ! — 

She is not mute, 0, marble eloquent ! 

She pleads ! She pleads ! 

Grazing on Stars and Stripes, to your own 
selves she turns, and pleads, in manacles ! 

Though listens England's Q,ueen, she listens 
all in vain ! 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 51 

Sweet slave ! turn from our Queen beloved 
that agonizing look ! 

No chains, no bonds, Her myriad subjects 
bear, 

They melt in contact with the British air : 

Her sceptre waves — and fetters disappear I 

Turn, turn, then, beauteous slave ! 

0, make thy mournful suit to those deep- 
meaning ones who sent thee hither ! 
\^ Their Saxon brethren here can only sigh ! 

— ^Who stand behind thee, beautiful one ? 

Daughter and son of Shem ! how came ye 
hither ? 

"Wild brother of the woods ! 

Clad in the spoils of eagle, buffalo, and bear ! 

Strange son of Adam ! Sharer of his chart- 
ered rights ! 

But why that hideous scalp, from thy slain 
brother torn 

Kinsman of Cain ! 

And thou I Physician !* 

* These two interesting figures, modeled from the life— 
the man a physician among the American Iowa Indians, and 
having his leggings *' fringed with scalp-lochs taken from his 



52 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Thou stand'st before a Christian Queen ! 
Why wear that emblem of a savage hate ? 



— Did ever Queen within such Palace stand ? 

"Will ever Queen again ? 

Or with so skilled an eye, its myriad objects 
scan? 

Were ever Queen and Prince so matched 
before ? 

A Prince philosopher, and philosophic Prince ? 

Majesty ! Philosophy ! in shining union seen ! 

Exalted Pair! A banquet here is spread, 
right royally, 

For all mankind — 

State laid aside, and Majesty, and Royalty, 
and Lowliness, partakers all 

All, all alike — nor frowns, nor fears — 

Queen, Prince, and People — 
^A Queen and Prince are gone ! 

enemies' heads ;" and the woman, a Mandan Indian, one of 
the native tribes west of the Rocky Mountains — were sent to 
the Ciystal Palace by Mr. Catlin. Neither of the originals, 
who were lately in England, happened to be a subject of her 
majesty ; but she has many such. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 53 

A unit unperceived, I sink into the living 
stream again ! — Nave, transept, aisles and gal- 
leries, pacing untired : insatiate ! 

— Amazing spectacle ! Touchstone of char- 
acter ! capacity ! and knowledge ! 

Spectacle, now lost in the Spectators : then 
spectators, in the spectacle ! 

Rich : poor : gentle : simple : wise : foolish : 
young : old : learned : ignorant : thoughtful : 
thoughtless : haughty : humble : frivolous : 
profound : 

Every grade of intellect : every shade of 
character ! 

Here is a voluble smatterer : suddenly dis- 
comfited by the chance question of a curious 
child : and rather than own ignorance, will 
tell him falsely. 

There a bustling piece of earth : one of the 
earth, earthy : testing every thing by money 
value. 

Here is a stale bundle of prejudices, hard 
bound together : to whom every thing here is 
topsy-turvy, and discolored, seen through jaun- 
diced eyes. 



54 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Here comes one, serenely unconscious that 
he is a fool. 

There is one suddenly startled by a suspi- 
cion that he knows scarcely any thing. 

Here is one listening, with seeming lively 
interest, and assenting gestures, to a scientific 
explanation, of which he comprehends nothing ; 
but appearances must be kept up. 

There is one falsely thinking himself the 
observed of observers ; trying to look uncon- 
scious, and distinguished. 

Here is one that will not see a timid poor 
relation or an humble friend, as fashionable 
folk are near. 

Yonder is a statesman : gliding about alone : 
watchful : thoughtful : cautious : pondering 
national characters : habits : capabilities : lo- 
calities ; wants : superfluities : rival systems 
of policy, their fruits and workings : imagin- 
ing new combinations : speculating on remote 
consequences. 

Is here one abhorring England and her in- 
stitutions : hoping he sees her approaching 
downfall, their subversion ? 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 55 

Yonder walks one who has committed, or is 
meditating, gi'eat crime ; and hoping that his 
heavy eye may here he attracted, and his mind 
dazzled into a moment's forgetfulness ; hut it 
is in vain. 

There is a philosopher, to whose attuned ear 
the Spectacle speaks myriad-tongued : telling 
of patient sagacity : long foiled, at length — or 
suddenly — ^triumphant : of centuries of misdi- 
rected, abortive toil : of pain, suffering, priva- 
tion : of one sowing what another shall reap : 

Here is a philanthropist — thinking of blood- 
stained slavery. 

Of millions, dealt with as though they were 
the very heasts that perish : bought : sold : 
scourged : slain : as if their Maker had not 
seen them, nor heard their groans, nor treas- 
ured their tears : nor set them down against 
the appointed Reckoning. 

Here is one, little thinking that he will sud- 
denly fall dead to-morrow : having much on 
hand, both of business and pleasure. 

There is one tottering under the weight of 
ninety years : to whom the. grasshopper is a 



56 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

burden : leaning on the arms of dutiful and 
lusty youth : gazing with glazed eye : silent 
with wise wonder. 

Here sits a laughing child upon a gleaming 
cannon. 

Yonder is a blind man, sightless amid sur- 
rounding splendors : but there is one telling 
him tenderly that he stands beside the statue 
of Milton. 

There, in the glistening centre of the Tran- 
sept, stands an aged exile : venerable : wid- 
owed : once a Queen : looking at the tranquil 
image of Queen Victoria : meditating, with a 
sigh, on the happy security of her throne. 

Yonder is a musing poet : gazing silently 
Eastward — ^Westward — • Northward — South- 
ward : above — ^below : every where pouring a 

living tide of wonder nor silent nor 

noisy a strange hum=^ — a radiant flood 



* It is a crowd of men, says an old author, quoted in the 
Morrnng Chronicle of the 9th of August, "with vast con- 
fusion of tongues — like Babel. The noise in it is like that of 
bees : a strange humming, or buzz, mixed of walking and 
talking — tongues and feet : it is a kind of still roar, or ^oud 
whisper." 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 57 

of light many-hued objects, now glittering 

brightly then glistening fainter and 

fainter, till lost in distance : whence come 
faintly the strains of rich music inter- 
mingling mysteriously with the gentle hum 
around him — G-liding about, forms of exquisite 
beauty, most delicate loveliness — living, eclips- 
ing the sculptured beauty at which it is look- 
ing, with blushing consciousness yonder, 

a fair daughter of Eve, before the Mother of 
all living : her shuddering eye glancing at the 
serpent, her ear catching the deadly whisper 

Far away, in shape and gesture proudly 

eminent, Satan as it were showing all the 

kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, 
in a moment of time. There they are ! Great 
Nations, new and old, with their bright banners 

streaming : helm : lance : sabre — cimiter 

See there, solemnly silent all Crusaders 

the crashing of a mailed throng sound- 
less banners — the Crescent Cross 

fierce-gleaming Saracen Saladin— Coeur 

de Lion glorious De Bouillon * ^ ^ A 

dim reliirious liirht Dante Tasso— — 



58 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Milton Shakspeare there They are ! 

Could they see but this or he, with eyes 

like theirs ^be stirred with thoughts like 

theirs ah ! sinking deeper still in revery — 

dreamy — delicious I =^ =^ ^ still the hum 

— the dazzle 

Grifted one Up, Laureate ! Wake ! Ay 

— it is no dream but radiant reality — 

Up, Laureate, with thy lyre, and rapturously 
sweep its thrilling strings ! Give forth grand 
strains, echoing through all time to come, sur- 
passing Pindar's, as thine his Theme trans- 
cendeth far 



Here are the Philosophers : among them 
Herschel, the successor of Newton: stand- 
ing before the huge telescope, thinking of one 
greater still, constructed by the philosophic 
Peer beside him : and they are speaking of 
Nebulae resolved, resolvable : stars made faint- 
ly visible, so distant, that the mere attempt to 
conceive their remoteness, prostrates mortal 
imagination, awfully lessoning of limited fac- 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 69 

ulties : — faint — just visible* — now hid — little 
speak : others : even to their vast powers, ut- 
terly and forever invisible some, whose 

light, though traveling in a minute twelve 
millions of miles, requires a thousand years to 

reach this planet Each star, again, itself 

probably a System, on the outermost verge of 
another possibly containing inhabitants gifted 
with powers greater than man can conceive of, 
and who are, at this moment, with unassisted 
sense, viewing systems ten thousand, thou- 
sand, thousand times still farther off from 
them than they from us. 



— Grlorious Suns, round Suns, each with its 
train of Planets and Satellites, forever shroud- 
ed in the splendor of their respective suns, 
from the little eye of man. Double stars 



* The author has just been informed by that vigilant ob- 
server of the heavens, Mr. Hinde, that, from the recently- 
published investigations of Russian astronomers, it appears 
that the light of the faintest stars visible in Herschel's twenty 
feet reflector would require 3541 Julian years to reack tbi« 
earth ! 



60 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 



-of orange, blue, green, crimson, rich rud- 



dy purple !^ 

— Think, quoth he, of twin suns, red and 
green — or yellow and blue — ^what resplendent 
variety of illumination they may afford to a 
planet circling about either charming con- 
trasts and grateful vicissitudes — a red and 
green day, alternating with a white one, and 
with darkness.! 

And these countless and infinitely dis- 
tant systems all subject to the law of gravita- , 
tion, discovered by a brief denizen of this tiny 
planet. 

This Sun of ours, with all his attend- 



* The star rj Cassiopeiae exhibits, says Sir John Herschel, 
the beautiful combination of a large white star, and a small 
one of rich ruddy purple. Milton, in his eighth book of Par- 
adise Lost, has a remarkable passage, noticed by Herschel. 
The angel Raphael is saying to Adam — 

" other suns, perhaps. 
With their attendant moons, thou wilt descry : 
Communicating male and female light 
(Which two great sexes animate the world). 
Stored in each orb, perhaps, with some that live." 

Milton died about twelve years before Sir Isaac Newton's 
discovery of the law of gravitation. 
t Herschel's Astronomy, p. 394-5. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 61 

ants, moving bodily toward a mystic point in 
the heavens.*- 

Of stars — blazing brightly in past ages, and 
since mysteriously disappeared. — 

* ^ ^ 

Yonder, are the twin sons of Science, Le 
Yerrier and Adams — a noble Pair, in noble 
rivalry : England and France ! Speaking mod- 
estly* of their sublime discovery, though one 
which would have gladdened the heart of New- 
ton 

Uranus, saith one — discovered by the 

father of our living Herschel, at once doubled 
the boundaries of the solar system ; and, at a 
distance of eighteen hundred and twenty-two 
millions of miles, is observed somewhat dis- 
turbed in performing its journey : the two as- 
tronomers, separately bent on discovering the 
cause, by a rare application of transcendent 
science, succeed at length in detecting the at- 

* I believe, said the astronomer-royal, Mr. Airy, on a recent 
occasion, that every astronomer who has examined this mat- 
ter carefully, has come to a conclusion very nearly the same 
as that of Sir William Herschel, that the whole solar system 
is moving bodily toward a point in the constellation Hercules. 



62 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

tractive influence of a remote unseen orb — a 
new planet : Neptune — as far beyond Uranus, 
as he beyond Saturn ! at thirty times our own 
distance from the sun : two thousand eight 
hundred and fifty millions of miles off: more- 
over, not only pointing out where a Planet 
would ere long be found, but weighing the 
mass of the predicted mysterious Visitor — 
numbering the years of his revolution, and tell- 
ing the dimensions of his stupendous orbit.* 

Behold, at length The Intruder ! attended 
now by Satellite, gleaming — in cold, shadowy, 
remote splendor — and graciously visible, first, 
to the eyes of the patient twins of astronomic 
science — Neptune, now just five years old ! 

Yonder is Bessel, the Prussian astronomer, 
discoverer, at length, of the distance of a Fixed 

* Given — says a Scotch astronomer, in recording this amaz- 
ing stretch of science and intellect — the position, mass, and 
periodic times of two planets ; the astronomer is able, though 
it is no easy task, to calculate the perturbation which each 
will produce on the other. But the problem resolved by 
these two French and English astronomers, viz., given the 
perturbation, to find the position, mass, and periodic time of 
an unknown disturbing body, is one of such infinite difficulty, 
that certainly few astronomers believed it possible. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 63 

Star I — sb-y -three billions of miles off I* 

nearly seven hundred thousand times our own 
distance from the sun — which is ninety-five 
millions three hundred thousand miles away ! 
And this utterly inconceivable distance exactly 
measured by means of a common yard meas- 
ure ! And there is another telling an incred- 
ulous wonderer that we have weighed The Sun ! 

and his planets even Neptune !— -ay, down 

to the pound weight avoirdupois! — and even — 
for the fastidiously exact — down to grains: 

and they are standing before an instru- 

mentl: which can weigh to the ten thousandth 

part of that grain ! 

There is the French Foucault : who has 



* Enormous as this distance is (63,000,000,000,000 miles), 
says our astronomer-royal, I state it as my deliberate opinion, 
founded upon a careful examination of the whole of the pro- 
cess of observation and calculation, that it is ascertained with 
what may be called, in such a problem, considerable accuracy. 

t The number of cubic miles in the earth is 259,800,000,000; 
each of these miles contains 147,200,000,000 cubic feet; and 
each of these cubic feet weighs 354 lb. 6 oz. avoirdupois. — 

ASTRONOMER-RoYAL. 

X Fox's magnetized weighing-balance. There is also a ba- 
rometer, showing the thousandth part of an inch in the rise 
and fall of the mercury ! 



64 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

shown to our very eyes, and since this mar- 
velous Palace was opened, the Earth moving 
on its axis ! Creating a new motion in the 
pendulum, independent of that actual one 
given to it by the earth at the point of sus- 
pension.* 

And there is an English astronomer explain- 
ing to a gifted fair one how, just fifty years 
ago, the interval between Mars and Jupiter 
appeared vacant — within which, nevertheless, 
it was said, a hundred years ago, that there 
might have been once a Planet rolling, till 
shattered by some fearful internal convulsion, 
or collision with some heavenly body: and 
that, if such had been the case, its fragments 
might hereafter be found circling within that 
space : and now — amazing reality ! — there are 
Fourteen of those fragments, ten of them found 
within the last five years — the last since this 

* The author has personally ascertained from three of our 
most eminent astronomers— one of them Sir John Herschel, 
another Captain Smyth — that M. Foucault's experiment is a 
real and successful one, though extremely delicate and diflS- 
cult to perform so as to obtain correct results. Such also is 
the opinion of the astronomer-royal. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 65 

Palace was opened, and fitly called Irene — 
and its discoverer* is here, saying that he is 
constantly watching for other and smaller frag- 
ments, believing he has already seen, and lost 
them again : that they come so close toward 
each other that there is danger of collision — 
especially if their orbits should be altered by 

the perturbation of mighty Jupiter ! 

Behold the astronomers curiously scanning 
sextants, quadrants, circles, and transit instru- 
ments — and the huge telescope pointed inquis- 
itively toward the heavens — each thinking of 
his midnight vigils, sitting with eye fixed on 
the rolling orbs of Heaven — vast worlds in 
rapid harmonious motion — and speculating on 
the powers of telescopic vision, hereafter aug- 
mented, so as to detect the existence of stars 
so far off that their light has not reached us 
hitherto, though traveling toward us two hund- 
red thousand miles a second — and ten thou- 
sand times swifter than the earth in its orbit, 

* Mr. HiNDE discovered Irene on the 19th of May, 1851. 
He is the discoverer of three of these singular and mysteri- 
ous tenants of our system. 



66 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

ever since the hour when the Ahuighty placed 
Adam in Paradise 

Millions beyond millions upon millions of 
stars^ — suns — systems peopling infinitude ! 

— Here is one inspecting Microscopes — and 
telling of their transcendent powers, and awe- 
inspiring revelations — converting the smallest 
visible grain of sand into a vast fragment of 
rock, a thousand million times more bulky :* 
showing a drop of water instinct with visible 
life, myriad-formed, every atom consummate- 
ly organized : within the space of a grain of 
nmstard-seed, eight millionst of living active 
creatures, all richly endowed with the organs 
and faculties of animal life by Him who so 
fearfully and wonderfully made these bodies 
of ours,$ revealing an unfathomableness of or- 



* Herschel's Discourse on Natural Philosophy, 191. 

t Prichard's History of Infusoria, p. 3. The author him- 
self once saw distinctly through a very powerful oxy-hydro- 
gen microscope, in a single drop of clear water, a creature 
of transparent structure, but with a faint crimson-hued fluid 
actually passing through the vessels, as blood thi'ough human 
arteries and veins, and propelled, apparently to the very eye 
of the beholder, by a heart ! 

X Plato has said, in a magnificent spirit, that probably it 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 67 

ganic creation in the smallest space, as of stars 
in the vast immense 0, overwhelming re- 
alities and mysteries ! 

A world in every atom — a system in every 
star !^ 

There is Owen, profomidly pondering a 
shapeless slab of stone, neglected, and perhaps 
unseen, by millions : yet may he read in it an 
immense sisfnificanoe. 

o 

Here is Stephenson, contemplating the mod- 
el of the Britannia Bridge — and telling of his 
toils and anxieties in spanning the Straits 
with iron tubes, through which now shoots 
the hissing, thundering Train dizzily high o'er 
the stream which the Roman invader of An- 
glesey passed, nearly eighteen hundred years 
ago, with his legions, on flat-bottomed boats, 
and with swimming cavalry, to encounter the 
Druids in their last retreat : beholding women 
with waving torches, running, with disheveled 
locks, to and fro, and in wild shrieks echoing 

were no difficult thing to demonstrate that the gods are as 
mindful of the miuute as of the vast. 

* Chaque monde peut-etre n'est qu'une atome, et chaq^ue 
atome est una monde. — Madame D£ Stael. 



68 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

the imprecations of their priests, all soon si- 
lenced, and their utterers slaughtered, and 
flung into fires prepared for the invaders. 

Now he is speaking with brother engineers 
— English, French, Grerman, Russian — show- 
ing the Hydraulic Press, which raised to the 
height of a hundred feet huge tubes of iron 
two thousand tons in weight : — now the 
French turbine : the centrifugal pump : the 
steam-hammer — oh, mighty Steam ! 

— ^Here behold Power — exact : docile : del- 
icate : tremendous in operation — dealing, eas- 
ily, alike with filmy gossamer lace, silk, flax, 
hemp, cotton, granite, iron — Power, all bright 
and gleaming, as though conscious, and en- 
dued with volition : exhibiting bewildering 
complexities of movement, and working vast 
results : movements which yet a child's finger 
may stop suddenly, as though he had unwit- 
tingly caused Mechanical death 

Here is Faraday, speaking of magnetism, 
electricity, galvanism, electro-galvanism, elec- 
tro-magnetism, and chemical decomposition : 
— ^while one beside him is conjecturing wheth- 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 69 

er light, heat, electricity, magnetism, and 
other forms of force, *^ may not ere long he 
hrought into distinct relation to each other : 
oheying one great law, having the same re- 
lation to atoms in proximate contact, as grav- 
itation to those at a measurable and apprecia- 
hle distance — one suhtle, mysterious, all-per- 
vading Force — of nature, it may he, forever 
undiscoverahle, and potency infinitet — rever- 
ently he it spoken, the second Eight hand of 
the Creator,! Chemical power, the great con- 
trolling and conservative agency — as Mechan- 
ical power, the First 

And has the modest philosopher a flickering 
consciousness, a faint, oft-vanishing suspicion, 

* See Mr. Ansted's Geology, and Mr. Grove's Corrella- 
Hon of Physical Forces. 

+ Faraday's discovery, that the elements and compounds 
which are not atti'acted by the magnet, and do not arrange 
themselves parallel to the earth's axis, are repelled by the 
magnet, and arrange themselves (if having the form of a bar) 
in an equatorial position — that is, in a plane at right angles 
to the straight lines joining the two poles — has been pro- 
nounced to be the most important contribution to physical 
science since the discovery of Newton concerning the law 
of force in gravitation, and the universal action of that forced 
— See Ansted's Geology, p. 18. 

X Dr. Macculloch. 



70 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

that he is about to behold Nature's secret re- 
cesses and laboratories, closed since the Crea- 
tion, suddenly thrown open ? 

That he stands on the threshold of some 
tremendous discovery, pregnant with revolu- 
tion ? 

^ ^ ^ 

See, all around, the shining traces of Man's 
Presence and Powers, in this his allotted scene 
of action — powers daily developing, till the 
strongest Intellect bends under the pressure 
of accumulated discovery : 

Lord of the creation, all animals are his — 
the fowls of the air : the fishes of the sea: 
cattle : and every creeping thing : 

He captures them : compels them to do his 
bidding : 

Changes their nature : turns their weapons 
upon themselves : slays them : 

Nay, he tortures, in the plenitude of his 
power, in the wantonness of his will : 

Minute or stupendous : hideous or beauti- 
ful : gentle or fierce, all own his sway, and fall 
his prey, alike for his necessity or his sport ; 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 71 

He feasts on their flesh: with it, daintily 
pampers his kixurious palate : he gayly decks 
himself in their spoils : he imprisons them — 
captive witnesses of his Lordship : 

Smiling tranquilly, he contemplates howl- 
ing, roaring, hissing, yawning monsters, whose 
very blighting hreath he feels : 

Tenants of every element : scorpion : ser- 
pent : eagle : lion : dragon : behemoth ! 

He hollows mountains ; he levels hills : he 
raises valleys : he splits open rocks : he spans 
vast streams : he beats back the roaring ocean. 

He mounts into the air, and is dizzily hid 
in the clouds. 

He descends into the earth, and extorts its 
precious treasures : 

He sails round the globe, defiant of storm, 
commanding the wind and the tide : 

He dives to the bottom of the ocean, mind- 
less of monsters amazed, rifling its coral and 
pearl, and recovering its long-hidden spoils. 



72 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

He turns water into air, and air into water : 
the solid substance into fleeting vapor, and 
vapor again into substance. 

Light and the lightning he hath made his 
dazzling ministers and messengers : they do his 
imperious bidding : they array his handiwork, 
in the twinkling of an eye, in splendor, golden 
and silver : they image his lordly features : 
arrest the fleeting shadow : do the dread be- 
hests of justice, flying fast as his thought : 
speak his instant pleasure beneath the ocean : 
from distant shore to shore : traversing conti- 
nents : joining the East, West, North, South : 
and boldly threatening Time and Space. 

His venturous eye has pierced the awful 
Heaven : he scans illimitable space : he weighs 
the shining orbs : he tells their laws, distances, 
motions, and relations : the misty Way he 
turns into myriad blazing suns : he tracks the 
mysterious travelers of remotest space, fore- 
telling their comings and their goings. 

He dares even to speculate upon the Un- 
seen 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 73 



The Infinite- 



Omniscience 

Omnipresence 

Omnipotence 

And reverently contemplates Him whose 
darkened Image he bears, oft forgetfully : his 
Maker : Him, who erst asked awfully, Adam, 
WJiere art thou 7 

The High and Lofty one that inhabiteth 
eternity, whose name is Holy — ^Who saith, I 
dwell in the high and holy place : with him 
also that is of a contrite and humble spirit : to 
revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive 
the heart of the contrite. 

He hath showed thee, Man, what is good : 
and what doth He require of thee, but to do 
justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly 
with thy God ? 

This, from the highest Heavens — the Holy 
of Holies ! From G-od, to Man 

— come, let us worship and fall down, 
and kneel before the Lord our Maker. 



74 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

For He is the Lord our Grod, and we are the 
people of His pasture, and the sheep of His 
hand ! — 

— 0, what a piece of work is a Man ! 

How noble in reason ! 

How infinite in faculty ! 

In form and moving, how express and ad- 
mirable ! 

In action, how like an angel ! 

In apprehension, how like a god ! 

The beauty of the world ! 

—But, methinks, great Bard, I hear a 
grander voice than thine, while my abased* 
head touches my kindred dust, in trembling, 
humbled awe — 

— When I consider Thy heavens, the work 
of Thy fingers : 

The Moon, and the Stars, which Thou hast 
ordained : 

What is man, that Thou art mindful of 
him. 



* There is an abasement because of glory; and there i 
that lifteth up his head from a low estate. — Eccles., xx., 11. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 75 

And the son of man, that Thou visitest 
him:"^ 

Man, like a thing of naught, his time pass- 
ing away like a shadow ! 



KoH-i-NooR. All hail! Monarch of 

Grems — so say some of thy courtly flatterers. 
For such thou, royal one, like other royal ones, 
most surely hast ! Art thou a Q,ueen, yet not 
The Queen of gems ? They whisper of an Im- 
perial gem — and another of priceless value ; 
as yet uncut — as though Royalty mistrusted 
lapidary — or its G-em I 

And thou art but half cut, oh Koh-i-Nool* ! 
Shorn of half thy beams ! 

Did barbarian ignorance arrest and palsy 
the tremulous hand patiently develo^g thy 
prismatic splendor? 

And art thou doomed ever to wear this dis- 
figured and half-darkened form ? 

* Shakspeare, Hamlet, Act ii., Scene 2. Psalrn, viii., 3-4. 
Oux' illustrious philosopher Boyle never heard the narae 
of the Deity meationed, nor mentioned it himself, without 
humbly taking otFhis hat. 



76 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

"What art thou. Koh-i-noor ? Hearest thou 
the name given thee obsequiously ? — 

Mountain of Light I 

Grlittering atom — morsel of earth — con- 
densed vapor — charcoal — 

Dare I whisper these things in royal ear ? 

Thou, a Mountain? 

Perchance thou knowest what man, to know, 
would give unnumbered millions — 

One a thousand times as great, as bright, as 
beautiful as thou ; but hid forever from the 
eye of man — 

True mountain crystalline ! and scarce 

missed, but exactly missed, by the sharp pick- 
ax of the wearied slave ! 

Such little, little^ gems as thou, alone, 
Koh-i-Noor, to man vouchsafed, 

Lying in dirt, deep in dirt — in G-olconda's 
mine. 

Thou hast a mystery about thee, Koh-i-Noor* 

Art thou a thing but as of yesterday — or 
million, million ages old ? 

* The largest known diamond weighed, it is said, before 
cutting, nearly six ounces Troy. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 77 

Dost thou, a radiant messenger, tell us of 
central fire, whose fearful office has been fore- 
told to man ?'^ 

Proud Grem, loving the summit of the dia- 
dem — and potent sceptre, emblems of power 
supreme — sitting before us, throned in state, 
and with thy two supporters, here hast thou 
received homage of millions 

And yet thy throne, methinks, too low ! 

Two of thy royal race, may be thou know- 
est, are glistering eyes of hideous Juggernaut, 

And thou, fair Koh-i-Noor ! wast doomed to 
bear them dismal company, and flame upon 
the brow of Moloch — horrid king besmeared 
with blood of human sacrifice. 

Grrim idol towering o'er slaughtered mill- 
ions — 

Ay, Koh-i-Noor, destined to this office, and 
by a Dying tyrant — 

Another happier fate was thine ! 

Here art thou, sent hither by thy royal Mis- 

* Thirty miles below the surface of the earth, says Hum- 
"boldt {Cosmos, vol. i., p. 45, 174, Harper's edit.), the central 
heat is every where so great, that granite itself is held in fu- 
sion. 



78 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

tress, brought to her by her brave sons from 
the distant East. 

And she hath sent thee hither, Koh-i-Noor, 
silently to teach, and to delight the eyes of 
those she loves. 

A store of gems she hath, of thy bright sis- 
terhood ; but hear it, beaming bit of earth ! 

She hath a jewel far outblazing thee, guard- 
ed more jealously — 

Not by brazen bars. 

But, shrined within her Royal heart of 
hearts, there lies a people's Love. 

Koh-i-Noor — having done thee suit and serv- 
ice due, with my myriad fellows, lo ! I would 
speak with thee ! 

What thoughts are passing through thy 
translucent bosom, 

Purest ray Serene ! 

Thou hast beauteous kinsfolk : lovely sis- 
ters : arrayed in sapphire, ruby, emerald hue : 

But also, 

A black sister, Koh-i-Noor 

Standing modestly, far away from thee : 
within this Palace, but not in thine. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 79 

AVhat ! art thou ashamed of her ? Would st 
thou disclaim relationship ? 

Not so, sweet gem! And now I do bethink 
me, I, too, my black brother have : 

And I disclaim him not. 

Behold him by my side — 

G-ive me thy hand, black brother, Son of 
Adam, once fetter-laden — ^not by us, but fetter- 
freed ! Come, pass me by, and take thy stand, 
erect and free, fearless 'midst England's great, 
and beautiful, and brave ! 

And thus thinketh the Queen of the two 
Diamonds ! 

— Koh-i-iN'oor, all is not flattery that hath 
been whispered by the millions who have 
gazed at thee. 

I wonder hast thou heard — whispering dis- 
paragement — expectation disappointed 

Depreciation — Sneers. Yet art thou all 

thou dost profess to be, come from a Queen : 
destined with English Queens and Kings to 
be all time hereafter 

gem ! Couldst thou know what thoughts 
and feelings, strange and various, oft scarcely 
owned, thou hast excited here I 



80 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Couldst thou read the hearts of those who 
now are clustering, bee -like, around thy throne, 
thy footstool ! 

Here a Philosopher : coldly deeming thee a 
shining exponent of false value. 

There a Chemist : smiling at thy fancied 
adamantineness : knowing that he can resolve 
thee into primitive vapor :^ dreaming, even, 
that he can reproduce thee in thy crystalline 
form ! 

Yonder is one looking at thee with fell eye : 
knowing that he could do murder to get thee, 
or thy worth. 

There here have gazed on thee owners of 
GEMS more precious, incomparably far, than 
thou. 

One, of melting charity, a good Samaritan : 
musing that, had he thy fancied equivalent of 
gold and silver, he would secretly scatter thy 



* Sir Isaac Newton, in speculating on the connection be- 
tween the chemical composition of bodies and their refract- 
ive powers, came to the conclusion that diamond was " an 
unctuous substance coagulated:" a sagacious prediction, says 
Sir David Brewster, vei'ified in the discoveries of modern 
chemistry. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 81 

radiant representatives over the dark realms 
of misery and want — ^Where hopeless Anguish 
pours her moan, and lonely Want retires to die I 

Seest thou a feeble form, attenuate, the 
death-flower hlooming on his wasted cheek ? 

He dare not mingle with the eager throng 
ceaselessly surrounding thee. 

His brilliant eye hath caught but distant 
glimpse of thee. 

On his eyelids is the shadow of death. He, 
too, bears a gem within : Grenius : its splendor 
consuming the frail casket. 

By its inner light he views this scene — ^his 
soul a star, dwelling apart, in starry solitude — 
as not a soul of all within these glassy walls 
can view it : — No, none, save gifted he : 

Motes in sunbeams, merely, they, with him 
compared. 

Grifted one ! Dear soul : — Poor soul ! an 
humble eye is on thee — all unknown to thee : 
unseen by man, a tear hath fallen. 

I can no more : no mortal man can stay thy 
flight from earth to native skies. 

— ^Not many suns shall set, well knoweth he, 
F 



82 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

alas ! who now, with trembling hand, wipeth 
the death-dew from his exhausted brow, ere he 

Close hid in dust shall lie — yet seen hy one 
Omniscient Eye — 

Hidden the casket only : the jewel far away, 

high in the skies and rapturously viewing 

brighter scenes than these ! 

And yonder one, of mien so meek and mod- 
est ! Schooled in affliction's sharpest school — 
a sufferer— schooled ! sublimed ! 

Nor grief, nor want, nor pain — neglect, nor 
scorn of proud Mankind, can shake his constant 
soul. 

Nor dim the G-em he bears — 

A. Faith, divine. 

Oh what a blessed eye is his, looking serene 
on thee ! 

Mountain of Light ! — Pale now thy uneffect- 
ual fire. 

Poor gem, eclipsed utterly. 

A dull, faint spark before the lustrous gem 
He wears ! 

Its sweet light shall shine more sweetly still, 

In the Dark Yalley which we all must tread, 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 83 

Turning the shadow of death into the morn- 
ing.— 

Taken the last dark step — at length got 
Home, 

Then that gem blazes suddenly ! as in a 
kindred element — 

Illuming immortality. 

— ^Aloof he stood from courtly crowd 
Around the throne of Koh-i-Noor. 
Of the crowd, and not the gem, thought he : 
"With folded arms, standing, while a faint 

smile flickered o'er his thought- worn face. 
This was a deep Philosopher. 
— I know a Stone, quoth he, not far away, 
"Which I prefer to Koh-i-Noor. 
But nobody sees, and nobody cares 
For that same stone. 
It glittereth not like Koh-i-Noor, 
Yet tells a tale that's music in my ear — 
And would be so to millions more, 
"Wonderful to the world, if but the world 

would hear — 

mild Philosopher, quoth I — 



84 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

What you have murmured, I have heard : 
I'll see your stone ; 

And vt^hat it then shall speak, interpret to an 
ignorant ear — 

Away- — away — o'er ocean swiftly 

sweeping, 

And in cold Canada ! 

Yes, there, saith he. It lies. A slab of plain 
gray stone, under deep strata for ages hid ; in- 
scribed by Nature's mystical finger, with faint- 
est character, for reading of instructed eye. 

But, ho ! the time — the time ! when this was 
writ- 
Millions of ages since have passed 

No stone was then this stone, 

But sand of a sea. 

Washed by primeval ocean of this Planet ! 

So long ago 

0, so, long ago, I fear to say and be be- 
lieved 

When flourished the Forests turned to coal, 

Is but as Yesterday, 

In comparison. 

Of that far-distant day, 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 85 

When that Sea 

Or gently kissed, or boisterously beat 

Upon that ancient shore. 

Then all along that shore, those sands, 

Now, This Stone, ^ 

A reptile crawled, slowly, painfully : 

Now moving on : then restmg for a while, 

Tired, or, perchance, looking for food : 

But wotting little he, the while 

That reptile old and strange ! 

That his footsteps would be tracked, 

And his uncouth figure pictured thence, 

By a keen and learned eye 

In this Our Day, 

Millions of ages after. 

That sand then, 

Stone now, here, ^ 

"Within our Palace ! 

— ^A Tortoise he these prints that made. 

And, still more than this. 

Behold the trace of the passing Shower ! 

That may have beat upon his horny back, 

As he crawled along that ancient shore. 

When low lay the tide 



86 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 



More still than this- 



The direction of the wind I tell, 
While fell that shower. 

Sir, it is well to scan 

What's writ on this neglected Stone. 
Though faint its character, its import is 
sublime. 

Telling of Life, and Air sustaining it : 
Of genial Showers, moistening the ground : 
Flux and reflux of tidal wave : 
Attractive force of the revolving orbs of 
Light, 

Greater and lesser, 

Night and day then governing^ 

All, all revealed to him, who, coming count- 
less ages after, 

Scanneth this Stone with an instructed eye. 
— Therefore, wonderful is this Stone, 
Thus mystically writ upon. And 

It is the True Philosopher's Stone 

— I listened thoughtfully, and again he 
spoke, 

* See Note, No. VII.—" The Philosopher's Stone." 

% 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 87 

For we were all alone : others 

Attending the levees of Koh-i-Noor 

And her Royal sisters. 

— ^While crawled that Tortoise on this Shore, 

And zephyrs swept his horny hack, 

The Sun upon the sea. 

At morning, noon, and even shone ; 

By night, the silver moon : 

But from the surface of that ancient sea, 

Looked None up, 

Rejoicing in the lovely light 

No ship, no sail, nor boat, nor barque — ^not 
all the world of undulating waters o'er — 
But far beneath. 
In dim abyss, 
Grlared hideous upturned eyes* of Chepha- 

LASP 

"Waiting his gorged prey of Shark, 
Itself devouring other ! 

* There are extant, in our Museum, fossil remains of one of 
these ancient monsters — the Ichthyosaurus — showing orbits 
upward of eighteen inches across '. " so that it would require 
a string five feet long to surround the cavity of the eye !'' 
See Mr. Ansted's Ancient World — an eloquent and deeply- 
interesting volume, richly repaying perusal. 



88 TFIE LILY AND THE BEE. 



Age after age rolled on- 



Still shone the rising and the setting Sun 
In silent splendor ; 

But now upon the monster Plesiosaur, 
Slimy and black, 

Uprising from its muddy bed, and 
Crawling fearful to that sea, with neck out- 
stretched and flaming eye 

Still waxed and waned the gentle Moon, 

Upon the earth, all verdant now ! 

Which trod the Iguanodon, 

And Megalosaur, 

And next, trembled 'neath ponderous foot 

of Deinothere 

And huger Mastodon* 

Still, still rolled on the globe, 



But lo !— 

Outbursting frightful fires ! 

Rolling the flaming lava forth, 

* There is a magnificent and complete skeleton of the 
Mastodon now in the British Museum. See Note, No. VIII. 
— "Ancient Monsters," 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 89 

Hissing through boiling sea ! 

Tremendous thunderings shaking sea, earth, 
air. 

Frighting the monsters far beneath the wave, 

Or basking on the heaving earth 

Lo I continents upheaved from ocean. 

And continents 'neath ocean whelmed 

■ While shone the dazzling Sun, 

The sweetly pensive Moon, 

By day, by night. 

Serenely o'er the scene terrific all ! 

— what a glimpse, to straining eye, 
through vista vast, of the far distant past 

This marvelous Stone hath given 

Of times unknowing Man, 

Scenes by his foot untrodden^ 

Man, future Lord of Earth, 

Ordained, in G-od's good time, to be ! 

— What ! have ye found no trace — ^no trace 
of Man, 

In all these ages past ? — I wondering asked. 

World-wide and deep, quoth he, hath been 
our search. 

And keen and close and all in vain ! 



90 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

'No trace — no faintest trace — of Man, or of 

his works 

But of His Maker's presence, 
His footsteps Awful, 
Every where. 

0, ONE Grlorious ! 

Only Thou, 

Supreme ! Thou Ever Present ! Active Ever ! 

Solely life-infusing Thou ! 

For Thy mysterious pleasure, and purpose 
inconceivable, creating all ! 

Upholding all things by Thy power 

All ruling by Thy "Wisdom Infinite, 

With foresight, and with providence. 

Awful, ineffable ! 

blessed Thou ! 

Or dead or living things, organic, inorganic, 

Mighty! little I Seen! Unseen! 

Thou dost develop, modify, adapt. 

For uses, ends, and purposes, some 

Dimly by Us, thy trembling finite ones, 
Infinite One ! perceived. 

But little understanding — 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 91 

That little, by Thy light 

Youchsafed, 

Dooming others ever to be unknown 

But to Thyself, 

In whose Omniscient Omnipresent sight 

A thousand years are but 

As yesterday, 

"When it is past ! as a watch in the night ! 

AYith whom one day 

Is as a thousand years ! 

And a thousand years 

As one day. 

— Thus, in the stony volume of the Earth, 
Though opened late, I lessons read, 
Designed, for human eye to see, and mind 
to scan and ponder. 

By Him who writ that record, 

Grraciously, 

And one Other, 

Also here, in myriad form magnificent, 

Both, telling of His Being, Doings, Will ; 

And His alone the power 

To make His creatures read 



92 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 



Both volumes right. 



* 



^Ay, quoth he 

To me, with a high sadness sighing, 
With gentle Spenser muse 

When I bethinke me on that speech — ^whyleare 
Of Mutability, and well it may ; 
Me seemes, That though she all unworthy were 
Of the Heaven's rule ; yet, very sooth to say, 
In all things else she bears the greatest sway : 
"Which makes me loath this state of life so tickle, 
And love of things so vaine to cast away : 
Whose flowering pride, so fading and so fickle, 
Short Time shall soon cut down with his consum- 
ing sickle. 

Then gin I think on that which Nature sayd, 
Of that same time when no more change shall be. 
But steadfast rest of all things, firmly stayd 
Upon the pillours of Eternity, 
That is contrayr to Mutabilitie : 
For all that moveth doth in change delight : 
But thenceforth all shall rest eternally 
With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight : 
O ! that great Sabaoth God, grant me that Sab- 
bath's sight 1=^ 

* The close of the Faerie Queene. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 93 



— Bevy of ladies triglit, ranged in a row \^ 
Your lovely eyes, yet gem-dazzled, look now 
on Lace !t and delicate Embroidery ! Telling, 

Of pious nuns and ladies high, and all their 
patient toil ! Of young thoughts, cruelly im- 
prisoned : and of musings solemn, while plied 
the fingers taper the ever unwearied needle at 
length — well-loved, 

And last of all in sequestered cell, the 

gentle eyes, dimming in death, beheld her del- 
icate toils, decking the altar, or the rohe of 

priest, solemn ! severe ! while incense in 

famt frasfrance soothed the sinkino: sense— 

and died the melting chant and organ's pealing 
harmony deliciously upon the dying ear 



* Spenser, Shepherd's Calendar — April. 

t In the construction of lace, it would seem that man has 
approached somewhat closely to his skillful and subtle rival, 
the spider. The thread of which the finest lace is made, we 
leai'u from the authorized Popular Guide to the Great Exhi- 
bition, is the most dehcate filament produced by human skill. 
Its tenuity is so extreme, that it can not be untied, it is said, 
in turbulent weather ! — when the current of air would be 
likely to injure its continuity. 



94 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

— Now plies the merry Bobbin ! at bidding 
of imperious Steam, hissing his "Will, all irre- 
sistible, while gaze distracted myriads on 

all busy once. 

Work on, then, remorseless Power — all 
undisturbed by sight of those whom Thou hast 
silenced ! 

Now, spread attractively before your eyes, 
ye softly-rustling ones, daintily satin-clad, in 
lovely form and attitude — the Silks. 

Daughters of Eve ! how fond your ardent 

gaze ! Ay, ay ! And they are beautiful 

radiant in every hue — glistening — glossy — 

— Turn, beauteous high-born one, with 
thoughtful eye ! 

Turn, for a while, aside with me 

Come, see a Worm — 

To whom, my lovely one, my thoughtful 
one ! thou owest thy rich and rare attire ! 
Come, Ladye faire, and see a Worm. — 

— Emblem and type of Change ! and Immor- 
tality ! 

0, wondrous worm ! 

Self-shrouded, 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 95 

In thy silken tomb ! 

Thy golden tomb I 

Anon to emerge m brighter form, on higher 
life intent, winging thy glad flight in sun- 
shine — far away — to scenes unknown before — 

But that stern man, 

Thy mystic transformation intercepts 

With fatal fires : 

Consuming tenant, for the Sepulchre ! 

List, ladye ! — 

Pause, Man ! stay thy fatal purpose ! 
Hark ! 

Poor spinner ! little doomed one ! — 

Still at work, within. 

Unconscious of thy bootless toil, nor dream- 
ing of thy cruel end 

— Now sheds this Beauty gentle, in death- 
ravished spoils arrayed I a Tear. 

Let it fall, ladye, and another, yet, distilling 
from thy dear and lustrous eyes, 

Sparkling in the light of Heaven, 

Which gave the heart to feel for Man or 
Worm! 

Lesson of mercy from the Merciful ! 



96 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

— Mystic worm ! Hadst thou renlained un^ 
known to man, 

Wouldst thou have still spun=^ on : 

A.S for sixty centuries past, so for number- 
less to come I 

Why? 

Let me not seek to dive, presumptuous, into 
the hidden purposes of Heaven. 

Whose was the cunning eye that saw thee 
first. 

And gave thee to the tender mercies of Man- 
kind ? 

Linking thy modest fate with ours ; 

Luxurious and exacting Man ! 



Where shall the Eye find rest, and where 



* A single silk-worm has spun a thread 625 yards in length. 
Taking, however, the average produce of this wonderful 
creature at only 300 yards each, and 2817 cocoons — i. e., the 
oval ball, formed by a long filament of fine yellow silk emit- 
ted from the stomach — as requisite to produce a pound of 
reeled silk filament, it would extend to the astounding length 
of 480 miles .' 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 97 

the Mind, in this Palace, vividly bright and 
vast ! 

I catch contagion from the eager Life, rest- 
lessly streaming round : All ear ! All eye ! 

All sense ! All Soul ! And all assailed at 
once ! 

Rarer and rarer seems the air, 

With the spirit of mankind, 

Mysteriously instinct. 

Lo ! — ^Power : Daring : highest feats, crown- 
ing defeats : Achievement, looking proudly 
down on vanquished, vaunting Impossibility. 

Where'er I go, where'er I look, I see tri- 
umphant Intellect I — 

Reason, supreme, severe all Real 

Ah, yonder — Fancy, with fantastic Unreal- 
ity, gracefully frolicking ! 
- Puck ! Ariel ! Oberon I Titania ! 

Droll sprites. 

Mimicking grand airs of Man ! 

Up, Master Puck ! — Thou merry Wanderer 
of the night ! 

Gro, put thy girdle round about the earth in 
forty minutes I 

a 



98 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Off, on thy journey ! Lingering not in this 
enchanted Palace 

Haste ! haste I For our Titania's bidding 
hath aheady flown on hidden wke the globe 
all round, over land and under ocean, and all 
her folk are looking out to see thee flying by, 
binding her realms with unseen cincture 

Quick, Puck ! Outrun the lightning ! 

Confounding scene ! Bewildering faculties 
conversant most with multiplicity ! 

The True ! the False ! the Present I Past ! 
Dim dreams of Future ! 

Lessons of Holy Writ ^heroes of Heathen 

song : glimpses of G-recian, Roman story : 

Here mighty Sampson : Rizpah there, tender- 
ly watching, patiently, o'er her dead sons : 

Here Jacob, whispering ardently, and blush- 
ing Rachel, beautiful, listening, with down- 
cast eye and thrilling heart 

Here murdered Innocents : there living In- 
nocence in prayer, drawing down Heavenly 
influence : here good Samaritan : and there — 

Meek Virgin, with her Babe, forever Blessed ! 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 99 

Prometheus on his rock, in agony immortal, 
the Yulture eyeing, with talons ever crimsoned 

in his blood : Achilles here, the deadly 

arrow quivering in his vulnerable heel : 

Yonder, a wounded Indian : suffering pair ! 
strangely assorted ! 

ViRGiNius here, who wrote his daughter's 
honor in her blood. 

Here dauntless Amazon : and there quaint 
Pan. 

Stern Hampden here : and there great Falk- 
land, slain in his youthful prime : brave, 
learned, loyal, virtuous, incomparable."^ 

Grlorious De Bouillon here I Famed War- 
rior of the Cross I Conqueror of Ascalon ! Cap- 
tor of Jerusalem ! Hero of dazzling darkened 
Tasso's song ! 0, pious Prince ! Who meekly 
wouldst not wear a Crown of Gold, 



* Thus fell, says the noble historian of the Rebellion, in 
that battle (Newbery), this incomparable young man, in the 
four-and-thirtieth year of his age ; having so much dispatched 
the business of life, that the oldest rarely attain to that im- 
mense knowledge, and the youngest enter not into the world 
with more innocence. Whosoever leads such a life, needs 
not care upon how short warning it be taken from him. 



100 THE LILY AXD THE BEE. 

Where thy loved Lord had worn a crown of 
thorns 1* 

Immorral Shaxspease I 

— O Homer ! iEschylus I Dante ! Tasso ! 
Shakspesa^ I Milton ! O, ye, enchanting 

Time into forgetfnlness I Ye Lords of Song ! 

Creators of imagined worlds, peopled with 
glorious ones : 

Heroes I G-ods I Demigods I Angeb I Arch- 
angels I 

Im.aged all round I — 

But chiefly thee I caU — ^the warrior Poet 
thou — hero of Marathon and Salamis. telling 
of Prometheus's fate, the Lnpious one, steal- 
ing down fire from Heavent 

ye ! your hrows with chaplets wreathed, 



* Giodfiney de BamHoB. woold not safer himself to be pro- 
dLii w i ll aad crowed Emg at it. i iiud ii 1 1 1 , even in flie moment 
«f trJHwuA, acpm^ &at lie -WD^d not be crowned ^rith ^Id 
m Ifae dij wiiere lem Savior faad been crowned with thoros : 
a sayag rariflii^ kun to immortality. 

t T« ffw 7«Ep ev&o^, UKSTEXSOr rrvpb^ gOjoc 
Qv^Tsiei KJLtixxs Cnraeep. — Upt^ Aecr/i. 
Amj etas may &ad ^a JtnmtA in reading, ch- re-reading, this 
fldfainiB eoapmiSkm, The PromdkeM* Boumd, by the light of 



THE LILY ANH THE BEE. 101 

of lustrous bloom undying ! Hushed be a 
while your lyres ! 

— Graze ye upon a mortal, 

Erewhile a denizen of this Our Isle 

See him, on bended knee. 

With a majestic reverence, 

And a sublime humility. 

With thought profound, far- stretching 

His eye first touched with Holy light, 

Scanning immensity. 

Behold ! The glorious sight at length 

Vouchsafed ! 

Key of the Universe, =^ 

First placed in mortal hands 
. By dread Omnipotence. 

— ^How that hand trembledt to receive the 
gift! 

* The law of gravitation, says one entitled and competent 
to make such a declaration (Sir John Herschel), is the most 
universal truth at which human reason has yet arrived. 

t When Newton began to perceive that his calculations 
were establishing the trath of his prodigious discovery, he 
became so agitated that he was unable to continue them, and 
intrusted the completion to one of his friends. Probably no 
other human breast ever vibrated with such emotions as 
those. Sir David Brewster justly observes, that the publica- 



102 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Had sunk The Soul, nigh awe-dissolved! 

0, unconceived magnificence The Heav- 
ens outspread 

Suns ! Planets ! Satellites ! Comets ! Stars ! 

Endlessly ! resplendently ! stupendously ! 

Ever circling in the void immense, 

Infinitude, 

Obedient to the mystic Law, 

Then first revealed ! 

See him gaze with pious Wonder — 

gazing 

— Yet silent, bards ! 

And thou, grand ^schylus! thy lyre hath 
fallen from thy hand ! 

Even thou, great Milton, stand'st transfixed 
with awe 

Immortal harmonies thou hearest 

"While sing the Morning Stars together, and 
shout the Sons of Grod for joy 

Lead me, thou gentle Presence — 

tion of the Principia will form an epoch in the history of the 
world, and will ever be regarded as the brightest page in the 
records of human reason. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 103 

My spirit faints and endless Grlitter 

blinds the exhausted eye 

From the silent shining Heavens. 

Descending again I tread the earth — 

This earth, itself small Tenant of the Heav- 
ens 

And given to Man, to he a while his little 
home 

Appointed scene of hopes, and fears, and 
trials - 

His little hopes, anxieties, and fears — 

Though little, awful, all ordained ! 

Yes — still flows on the humming, living 

stream the still sad music of human- 

ity 

A "Workman ! working ! — working 

HERE ! 

Unmoved and undisturbed by myriads' scru- 
tiny 

— 0, Artificer consummate ! exquisite ! 

On his own fixed purposes intent ! One of 
a State, a busy state, completely organized ! 



104 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

O'er whose Economy pondered the mighty 
IStagyrite 

And well he knew that on his Master's 
lips, 

Sleeping, great infant, Plato! in a myrtle 
bower, 

Some pilgrim members of the mystic State, 

Clustering, let honey fall ! 

0, hesy Bee, withouten gile !* on Thee I 
gaze ! 

1, in this Hive of mine, 
On Thee, in thine ! 

— Dear insect ! I would speak with thee ! 
I feel a sympathy of kin with thee ! 
— ^Whence camest thou, mysterious little 
one? 

Co-tenant of the globe with me ! 
Were The first Parents 



* Chaucer, The Second Nonne^s Tale. — When the author 
had the happiness of seeing this 3fiee, he was, for a while, sol- 
itary, very methodically repairing one of the cells. By-and- 
by, two or three other bees came up to him, as if to inspect 
progress; and, seemingly satisfied, went away, leaving him 
carefully adjusting a layer of wax. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 105 

Twin tenants of The Grarden, Paradise, 

"With mine, 

A.11 happy, bright, and beautiful, 

And freshly into being called 

By Ood? 

Linked in fond embrace, unknowing sin or 
shame. 

All loving ! and all loved ! 

Have Adam, Eve, 

Wandering the Garden o'er, among the 
flowers. 

Perceived Thy little Ancestors 

There also ! 

Hath our sweet Mother, 

"While balmy zephyr dallied with her clus- 
tering curls so tenderly, 

"Watched Thine, so tiny, 

From blossom to blossom wildly winging 
her way 

"With honeyed hum, 

And ecstasy. 

Till hidden rapturously 

In petals of the lovely Lily ? 

Anon out flew she ! jocund and free ! 



106 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Fearless of stifling violence, though seen the 

little store-house of her toils 

— ^Ah, blithesome Bees ! 
"What hours were those ! 

— ^A change ! a cloud ! and G-loom ! and 
Waters ! 

And that strange ARK ! 

Were thy ancestors, Two only,=^ also there ! 

Oft flying out, as thou and thine oft quit at 
will,! this hive, 

This hive of Yours, this hive of Ours — 

But THEN no flowers ! as now, to rest 
upon 

Waters all 

—And didst thou quit the roving Raven, 
and return alone — 

Anon, twin traveler of the Dove, 

Then left alone, on the damp top of olive- 
tree — 

Amazed a-hungered sunshine ! 

hut no flowers ! 

* Gen., v., 19, 20. 

t The bees fly in and out, at will, at the Crystal Palace. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 107 

Ye ancient, dear companions of our race ! 

Man and his Bee, 

After six thousand years of slaughter and 
of spoil, 

0, slaughtered Bee ! Dear Bee I Poor Bee ! 

Ye still are with us, plying your innocent 
toils 

Ye Victims ! Rivals ! Monitors ! of man ! 

Tiny Expositor forsooth ! Exhibitor ! of 
Industry — 

Yet, I do misgive me that I see, in thee, a 
small Unmedaled one ! 

In this Our Palace ! Hive ! Our Royal Hive ! 

Were ye ordained to gather for yourselves 
alone, and not for us, though from Our flowers ? 

Ye skilled ones ! why keep your science, all 
to yourselves ? 

For sixty centuries we taste, luxurious, 
what you gather and prepare. 

But have not learned your art, and can not 
supersede your toils I 

Make ye honey now, as from the first ye 
did? 



i08 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Perfect and pure,* then as now, now as then ? 

— How choose ye Flowers ? Or do ye choose ? 

Know ye blossoms fruitful, barren ? Or are 
they all to you, ye little Alchemists ! alike ? 

G-o ye a first, a second time, in vain ? 

strange Bees ! Why do ye gather from 
the poison-flowers, t 

Sweets hurtful — deadly to yourselves — or 
us? 

Is it your being's End and Aim to gather 
honey? 

* Aristotle thought that the honey gathered by bees was a 
dew fallen from heaven ; and perhaps he was not — shall one 
say it ? — very far from the truth. 

t Xenophon (who, from the beauty and simplicity of his 
style, was called the Bee of Greece) relates, in the tenth 
book of the Expedition of Cyrus, that gi-eat numbers of the 
Greek soldiers, when encamped in the villages, after carry- 
ing a position in the Colchian Mountains, found many bee- 
hives, and, partaking freely of the honey, were affected in an 
exti'aordinary manner — alarming the whole army, lying on 
the ground, as if prostrate from defeat. Those who ate but 
little, says Xenophon, were like men very drunk {a^odpa 
fiedvovGiv e(l)Keaav) ; those who ate much, like madmen (/xaL- 
vofihoig) ; and some like dying pei'sons {aTTodvrjcKovciv). All, 
however, recovered. Pliny tells us that there was a honey 
in those parts called Mainomena, from its maddening effects, 
and that it was gathered from the flowers of the rhododen- 
dros. Poisonous honey has also been gathered in large 
quantities by the American bees. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 109 

Or hath Omnipotent Omniscience, all Be- 
nevolent, 

Other and deeper purposes, =^ in His Divine 
economy, ever inscrutable by man ? 

Your structure and your doings, little Mys- 
tery, perplexed great Aristotle. 

And, twenty centuries since passed away, 

A mystery shrouds you yet 

Seen deepest into by a blind Bee-lover ! 

How little thought ye of the amazing glass. 

Enlarging to a Mammoth magnitude your 
tiny form ! 

Yet, still great secrets in your Sense ! 

Do ye hear ? — That organ's solemn swell — 
is it unheard by thee — unfelt through thrill- 
ing air — art thou not tempted to suspend thy 
toil? 

Thou shar'st proboscis with the Elephant ; 

With Chemist, laboratory — 

What Sight is thine ! High in the skies an 
hour ago. 

Still sawest thou this hive of ours, 

So vast, and thy own little one within— 

* See Note, No. IX.—" The Bee Mystery." 



110 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

And honey-laden, downward didst dart, with 
lightning speed — 

And thy gains, deposited in store. 

Thou ever indefatigable Bee, art instant 
here, repairing this thy hive ! 

Didst thou see, or note our Queen, contem- 
plative, musing on thee, and on thy mys- 
tery ? 

Do ye see the stars ? "Wondering, if Bees 
he there ? 

It much misgiveth me ye can not weigh the 

Sun nor tell of coming comets, eclipse, and 

Neptune far away 

Yet — Little Greometer ! 

Thou Grenius of Greometry ! 

With His endued. 

His, dread Greometer, who made the Heavens ! 

He made thee perfect, wonderful one ! 

Perfect at once — ^thy mission to fulfill — 

— Come hither Architect! and Engineer! 
with recent triumph flushed — 

This airy structure with its form compact, 
harmoniously adjusted, lofty dome, long gal- 
leries and nave — and aisles and transept — 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. Ill 

This Hive of Man — a while forget : and scan 
this little inner Hive, 

Ponder this Bee ! 

Perfect his work :* is thine ? 

Transcendent Mechanician, though so small ! 

Behold his Architecture 

A Royal Palace here — there chambers for 
the Royal race doors and passages, extens- 
ive, numerous, surrounding all the Hive 

Magazines well filled and guarded jeal- 
ously Grates fortified : and within, with- 
out, stand watchful sentinels antennae all 

alert lest spoiler enter or hideous Sphinx ! 

monster ! death-headed ! Him to guard 

against, the grim intruder, they raise the Barri- 
cade ^with bastion casemate gate- 
way massive ! 

They ventilate! 

* See Note, No. X.—" The Bee and the Infinitesimal Cal- 
culus." 

t How this indispensable process was carried on, baffled 
the research and speculation of ages. At length the mystery- 
was solved, and recently. The bees appointed for the pur- 
pose stand waving their wings — with a motion different from 
that used in flight — with untiring energy ; and, to gain the 
full effect of ii, first attach their feet firmly to the floor, and by 



112 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Their hive and we would fain so ven- 
tilate our own. 

And YE have thieves ! and strict police ! 

idlers and working-classes Quar- 
rels ^resentments rivalries 

Ye Emigrate ye Colonize co-oper- 
ate 

Forsooth ! Marauding expeditions ! Sieg- 
es ! Battles ! Civil wars ! and Massacres— even 
as we ours 

Of Albigense, "Waldense, and Huguenot ! 

And YE, too, have A — Queen! 

Living in stately palace on delicate fare 

' attendants courtly affectionate*" 

and guards 

A royal progeny — 

Queenly cares for her dear, busy sub- 
jects all concerned 

these means cause distinctly-perceptible currents of air to cir- 
culate through the hive ' 

* Unexpectedly, I one day saw a queen on a comb ; the 
next day I was favored with a like view. She remained each 
day about an hour, the bees very respectfully making a free 
passage for her as she approached. About a dozen of them 
tenderly licked and brushed her all over, while others at- 
tended to feed her. — The Ancient Bee-master^ s Farewell, by 
John Keys, p. 8, A.D. 1796. 



TFIE LILY AND THE BEE. 113 

Bee, wast thou spectator of that dreadful 

fight wherem she slew her Rival insolent 

Pretender to her Throne ever since, reign- 
ing all peacefully ? 

Dost thou rememher when, a while ye 

lost your Queen anon the consternation 

through her realm work all suspended 

infants untended and unfed all, all amazed 

all hurrying to and fro flying from 

hive to outer air to seek your Queen, ye 

loyal loving ones ? See, she returns 

and all again repose, and peace ! 

1 wonder, royal Bee, if ever thinks of 

thee the Ant republican ? musing on thy well- 
compacted State strictly subordinate 

and one supreme, lovely, guardian of order and 

of law ? for ye, too, have strict statutes, and 

most biting laws ! 

Ye pattern type of conduct, policy, and gov- 
ernment- sagacity I 

Experienced forecasting ones ! — lesson- 
ing us human Bees and Ants, royal ! republican ! 

Know ye sorrow — shame remorse 

or hope or dread despair ? 

H 



114 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Have ye a Past, and Future ? Or no to- 
morrow I all unconscious Now ? 

And do ye think — The objects of your busy 

being know : and judge of means and end 

perceiving, remembering, judging?— — 

Know ye of right or wrong ? — What right ? 
What wrong ? — 

Have ye a Soul, fed by undiscovered sense — 

or dread question know ye no Maker 

from that fruition glorious, eternally shut 

out incapable of light all darkness • 

matter and motion only, all mechanical 

unconscious mimicking Intelligence ? — 

Or, my soul o'erwhelmed ! — and am I 
looking now upon Grod working in this Bee — 

Ay, let me pause, mysterious Bee 

Is there 'twixt thee and me a gulf profound 
ordained to be ? 

Stand I on lofty Heason's brink, gazing 
proudly down on you, thick clustering on the 

other side — on Instinct's edge through Grulf 

impassable, tremendous ? 

Poor Bee I Dost thou see me — and note 
my speculations thinking so curiously 



THE LILY AXD THE BEE. 115 

SO confident — of thee, thy Bemg Do- 
ings ? — 

Myself ! — the while ! unconscious- 



ly contemplated by Intelligence unseen 

transcending mortal man, yet far himself from 

the Supreme, as finite from the Infinite 

this moment loftily scanning me, 

Suspending for a while his cares sublime,^ 
And gazing down on me — on all my Fellows 

clustering round 

In this our Hive of fancied splendor ! vast- 
ness ! yet even to his wondrous eyes not visi- 
ble 1, infinitely less to Him than Thou to 

Me. 

Doth he, in turn, deny me knowledge of my 
G-od, and think it to himself — perchance his 

awful fellows — all confined ? 

To such insects quite incommunicable 

Doth he muse that we — a curious race mi- 



* Sir Isaac Newton seemed to doubt whether there were 
not intelligent beings superior to us, who superintended the 
revolution of the heavenly bodies by the direction of the Su- 
preme Being. This was said by a relative of Newton, in re- 
cording a "remarkable conversation" with him. — Brews- 
ter's Life, p. 364-5. 



116 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

nute — from our little Planet peering, inquisi- 
tive, out among the stars. 

Thinking we tell their motions, distances 

"Weighing "both Sun and Planets 

Forsooth ! 



Feats stupendous I Feats suhlime- 
Ah, ha ! 



Laughing in the skies ! 

With powerful Sense at length discovering 

We have our records, too, of these our 
feats— — 

Of thoughts, fancied profound I — So wise ! 
Straining mighty faculties ! 

Such learned Ants, and such sagacious Bees ! 

Events so great ! 

Tiny Waterloo ! 

Armies I 

Fleets ! 

Ah, ha ! 

Ants red, and blue. 

Marching, magnificent, on land, 

Or floating fearful o'er the Sea, 

And smoke and spark 

Emitting, 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 117 

With thundering sound, 

0, so very terrible ' 

—Thinks He, 

That we, Man, 

Know not the past, no future have — only 

dim NOW all blind unknowing, cause or 

effect — or means or end intelligence but 

mimicking ^having no soul well-ordered 

atoms : finely organized, but stirring dust 

machines alone — ordained for use of others, 
only, not dreamed of by ourselves — sport of 

their wanton will unknowing how, or why 

THIS Palace ave have built 

Readino- no lesson from it 



o 



"Wise Spirit benignant Presence 

Yes ! I read ! I mark I I learn ! 

I learn, Bee ! wondrous monitor ! I 
learn from thee ! 

deep, instructive Mystery ! — 

Before thee, little Bee, Presumption stands 
abashed, and solemnly rebuked 

And Ignorance instructed, if it will ! 

Or conscious or unconscious Teacher, Bee, 
yes, humbly will I learn from thee ! 



118 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

In One we live, and move, and being have ! 

G-iving to each his powers, and sphere ap- 
propriate I — 

Man ! Bee ! 

Our mission each ! 

Though thine forever hidden from my eye, 

My mission let me know, and reverently 
fulfill ! 

— Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom : 

Neither let the mighty man glory in his 
might : 

Let not the rich man glory in his riches : 

But let him that glorieth, 

Glory in this, 

That he under standeth and knoweth Me, 

That I am The Lord, 

Which exercise Loving-kindness, Judgment, 
and Bighteousness in the earth : 

For in these things I delight, saith the Lord * 

* Jer., ix., 23, 24. 



BOOK THE SECOND. 



BOOK THE SECOND. 



NIGHT, IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE. 

The seventy thousand gone !* All gone, 

And I ALONE ! 

— How dread this silence ! 

The seventy thousand, with "bright sunshine, 
gone, 

And I alone — and moonlight all irradiates 
solemnly. 

All gone ! — the living stream, with its mys- 
terious hum 

My hrethren ! and my sisters ! gone I From 
every clime, of every hue, and every tongue ! 

But a few hours ago, all here : gleeful, 
eager, curious, all. 

Admiring, all — instructed, thousands — 



* On Tuesday, the 15th of July, sev«nty-four thousand 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO PERSONS visitod the Crystal 
Palace ! 



122 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Some, stirred with deep thoughts, and fixed 
on musings strange 

But now, thus far on in the night, all, all, 
asleep Past, Present, Future, melted into 

ONE ! 

— Dream - dazzled some — seeing all the 
world, and all its denizens, at once — in ev- 
ery place, at once hearing again the mur- 
mur ^hum the pealing organ 

Ay, all alone — ■ — 

The very Bees, wearied, are all asleep, in 
yonder hive of theirs. 

Save where before the porch stand their tiny 
sentinels, within, without — all vigilant, as 
ours. 

There's not a breath of sighing air to wake 
yon sleeping flowers, or stir the leaves of yon 
high Trees, stately sentries o'er the Flowers. 

Yon banners all hang waveless — ^their proud 
devices now scarce visible — 

Embleming Nations, restless ! stern ! in bat- 
tle order seeming even yet ! — startled some, 
convulsed but recently. 

But now, at length, asleep — all here, sleep- 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 123 

ing grandly secure, serene, reliant — Lately 
worn with war and tumult : now 

Soothed into repose by sights and sounds of 
an unwonted Unity, and Peace, and Concord, 

As though they owned the Presence awful, 
of Him 

Who maketh Wars to cease in all the world, 

Saying, 5e still, and know that I am Grod. 

Mighty nations ! all in glorious Congress 
met, as ye never met before, and may never 
meet again, When ye wake up, be it with 
thoughts of Peace, 

Peace, lovely Peace, 

Come from the G-od of Peace I 

0, could this concord last ! and blessed har- 
mony enwrap this troubled globe, 

Rolling through Heaven in its appointed 
course. 

Before the eye of G-od, Well Pleased, 

The God of Peace ! 

— ^Am I alone I And do I wake ? — or sleep ? 
— or dream ? 

Hark ! A sound ! startling my soul ! 



124 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

A toll profound 

The hollow tongue of Time, telling its awful 

Flight now, to no ear save mine ! 

Heard I ever here that solemn sound before ! 
Or did my million fellows hear, or note ! 
Now dies the sound away — 
But upwaketh, as it goes, Memories of ages 
past ! The Gone ! 

They come ! They rise ! They reappear ! 
, The air, strangely disturbed, is molding into 

forms 

— Is this Time ? Stand I still in Time, or 
have its bounds suddenly dissolved into Eter- 
nity 

And live around its mystic denizens 

ye dead ! ye dead ! whom I know by 

the light ye give, 
From your cold gleaming eyes, though ye 

move like men who live.*" 

Spirit unseen ! Assuring Presence ? Leave 

me not now 

I feel thee once again, while my eyes clear 
from the thick films of sense — 

* Moore, Melodies. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 125 

Then will I not fear — with Thee beside — 
though spkits glide ahout ! — the 

Grreat ones of the Past — aroused a while 
from sleep profound of ages, many — 

Others scarce settled into that long sleep — 

All solenm here ! amazed ! 

It is an awful sight — 

Man from the grave, around one Man upon 
the Earth 

Man in eternity, around one Man in Time 

Immortality Mortality surrounding, 

Melting my soul away. 

They see me not — yet I their presence feel 

Fearfully — my ghostly kindred all — 



A royal group ! Great Conquerors 

Alexander — 

Summoned from Earth with systems of vast 
empire, ripening fast — falling suddenly asun- 
der^ 

Scarce past his youth ! 

* A sarcophagras, believed to be that which inclosed the 
coffin of Alexander the Great, is now in the British Museum ! 



126 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

His eye glances from Nile to Indus 

Now fixed upon the hundred-channeled Sut- 
lej! 

— He heaves a mighty sigh. 

Now strains his ear as catching thundering 
sounds — ^Aliwal I Sobraon ! 

Again he sighs his eye on Egypt fixed 

Alexandria 

Great C^sar too also amazed and sad 

beside him Saracen 



Napoleon^^' gazing gloomily at Egypt — 

India France — Spain — Italy — Germany 

— Russia 

Upon his haughty brow glistens the Iron 
Crownt of glorious Charlemagne, 

Beside him standing now ^his eye quick 

scanning E urope wondering — concerned — 

Great Charlemagne! How altered all 



* Can you not, said the dying Napoleon to his physician, 
believe in God, whose existence every thing proclaims, and 
in v^^hom the greatest minds have believed ? 

t Napoleon was crowned with the Iron Crown (so called 
from the iron circle inside, said to be made out of a nail of 
the Cross) in 1805, a thousand years after it had encircled the 
head of the Emperor Charlemagne. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 127 

He too heaving sigh profound thinking 

of empire suddenly dissolved — 

Lo, there approaches Alfred ! — ^liis eye 

attracted tenderly unto a Mother's image 

And then, unto his own See him look 

round — serious, amazed 

0, thou majestic one I man, patriot. Monarch 
pattern* for Kings and men 

I see upon thy brow a jeweled crown, with 
Mercy, Justice, Yalor, Wisdom, Truth, and 
Piety so richly studded, 

G-littering bright through ages' intervening 
mist 

And to the distant East he looked, also 

To India, 

Scene of his pious Embassy, now by his de- 
scendant ruled 



* The pbilosophic German, Herder, speaks of Alfred as a 
Dattern for kings in the time of extremity ; a bright star in 
the history of mankind ; a greater man than Charlemagne. 
Mirabeau draws a noble parallel between Charlemagne and 
Alfred, giving the palm to the Anglo-Saxon ; and Voltaire de- 
clared that he knew of no one worthier than Alfred of the 
veneration of posterity. 



128 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

After a thousand years ! And Westward 
— Southward — Northward — too, he looked 
amazedly : 

And thought of millions many her sweet- 

soeptered sway oheying — so pious, free, both 
they and she 

And methought there melted from his shad- 
owy lips, pious King, strains uttered on the 
earth ! 

The citizens of Earth, 

Inhabitants of the ground. 

All had one like beginning : 

They of two only 

All came : 

Men and women, within the world : 

And they also now yet 

All alike come into the world : 

The splendid and the lowly : 

This is no wonder ! 

Because all know 

That there is One Grod 

Of all creatures : 

Lord of mankind ! 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 129 

The Father and the Creator. 

Hail ! Thou Eternal 

And thou Almighty, 

Of all creatures 

Creator and Ruler : 

Pardon thy wretched 

Children of the earth, 

Mankind, 

In the course of thy might. 

0, my Lord, 

Thou that overseest all 

Of the world's creatures, 

Look now on mankind 

With mild eyes ! 

Now they here, in many 

Of the world's waves. 

Struggle and labor ! 

Miserable earth citizens, 

Forgive them now !* 

Together glided these great Royal Ones, 

* This is taken verbatim from the extant poem given at 
length in Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons, vol. ii., p. 
104, 118. 

I 



130 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

seeming in converse deep and sad Napo- 
leon I Alexander ! Charlemagne ! Alfred ! 
through Nations passing, new and old : think- 
ing of Kings and Conquerors also there, for- 
gotten by mankind, as though they had not 
reigned, and slaughtered : or remembered but 
as writ in light by pencil of a gifted one 

Of changed dynasties ! new forms of power, 
and seats of government ! mighty schemes of 
Empire proudly conceived, long blood-cement- 
ed all ! all ! like bubbles burst 

But Alfred also mused on his own dear 

sceptered isle — ^his little realm little once 

— not now so great become grown like 

a grain of mustard-seed : when sown, less 

than all seeds on earth ^but gi'own, and 

waxed a great tree, and shooting out great 
branches 

Yes, venerable shade majestic gliding 

o'er the spot where stood so short a while ago 
— She who wears your crown — ever mindful 
she, in this our happy day, as in thy time thou 
wast, of Him, her Heavenly Father, High and 
Mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, only, 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 131 

Ruler of Princes, from His throne beholding 
all the dwellers on the earth 

Beside great Alexander — standing greater 

Aristotle ! ^ great Taught by greater 

Teacher ! 

The mighty Stagyrite 

Thou here I The Macedonian melted into 



And Aristotle stood alone, 

Looking round. 

After two thousand years, 

Monarch of Realm of thought ! 

A while, me thought, deeming he held the 
sceptre still 

Anon came One, who roughly shook his 
thronet 



* His voluminous works, on every department of human 
knovt'ledge existing in his time, have nearly all perished. 

t That wonderful man, Roger Bacon, who suddenly blazed 
a star of the first magnitude, in the profound darkness of the 
Middle Ages, declared that, if he could, he would have burned 
the whole books of Aristotle, Quia eorum studium non est nisi 
temporis amissio, et causa erroris, et multiplicatio ignorantiae. 
He who said this was nevertheless a stanch believer in the 
Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of Life, and Astrology. 



132 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Anon, Another — mightier still- — 

His throne subverted and the sceptre seized 

Transmitting to successors in all time ! 

Beside the Stagyrite now stood, 

Monk, Chancellor, 

Both great, both sad, 

Greeting, the Three, with noble air, 

Looking around, 

And then upon each other — 

"What converse with their eyes The 

Stagyrite of matter! form I privation! quali- 
ties occult ! corruption ! generation ! contra- 
riety ! motion ! rest ! and heaviness ! 

Melting before the eye of aged monk, vain 
alchemy ! astrology ! 

"While He of Yerulam, as 

Monarch, in His Own Palace standing. 

Displayed its wonders to his kingly guests. 

With instinctive sense imbued 

By that air so rich. 

They noted change, progressive — space 
passed o'er — progress vast into the realms of 
Anarch old — error dispelled and prejudice dis- 
solved — new powers, constant up-springing — 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 133 

boundless opportunity — all earth become one 
vast observatory,^ with sons of science peopled, 

patient — exact 

Before that King, 
Sitting in shadowy magnificence. 
Attended, thus. 

There passed his royal Successors, 
Living, or in eternity, or tarrying yet a 
while in time. 

Owning allegiance. 

Their right from him derived, on noble 
Tenure held, 

To seek the Real and the True, 

Grrandly intent on that, alone 

Obedient to his laws — not one revolt 

Here, telling of his realms, extending cease- 
lessly, and every where, 
Into two Infinitudes. 

* To what may we not look forward, said Herschel, more 
than twenty years ago, when a spirit of scientific inquiry shall 
have spread through those vast regions in which the process 
of civilization, its sure precursor, is actually commenced and 
in active progress ? What may we not expect from the ex- 
ertions of powerful minds called into action under circum- 
stances totally different from any which have yet existed in 
the woi-ld, and over an extent of territory far surpassing that 
which has hitherto produced the whole harvest of human 
intellect? 



134 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

The Past, written deep in earth, telling 

Races of life successive, forms seeming un- 
couth, tremendous. 

Their offices performed, all passed away, 

In procession mystical 

The Future ! ten thousand, thousand, 

thousand ages hence — predicting dim eclipse, 
disastrous shadow shedding — night in mid- 
day — ay, o'er this Palace' sight — then per- 
^ chance 'neath ocean deeply whelmed 

And forms existent, active, now. 

Then, long passed away and then ex- 
humed 

By the remote posterity of man, remains of 
man 

Wondering! as in 

A new Creation ! 

A moment silent 



0, quoth kindling Stagyrite, had this day 
heen mine ! 

While the sorrow-stricken King, 

Murmured, methought of Foreign Nations 
' and the Next Ag'es'^ 

* Thus sublimely commenced the will of this august prince 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 135 

Great Spirit, They are Here I — 

Thy precious Legacy accepted reverently ! 

* * ^ 

Yonder He of Syracuse ^his eye, contem- 
plative, profound. 

Scanning the growth of seeds he sowed 

Now two thousand years ago ■ 

A giant Shadow noiseless motion all 

around ! 

Hast thou, Archimedes, found 

where thou canst move the Earth ? 

Upon the slaughtered sage, 
Mournful Marcellus looking on ! and Cicero ! 
Thinking of the Tomb he sought neg- 
lected I grass o'ergrown ! 

But neither, Syracusan saw, unheeded both, 
Absorbed, the great Greometer, as when the 
ruthless Roman pierced him through 

of philosophers: "First, I iDequeath my soul and body into 
the hands of God, by the blessed oblation of my Savior — the 
one at the time of mj dissolution, the other at my resurrec- 
tion. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charita- 
ble speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." 
One of these expressions points to a passage in his life preg- 
nant with instruction, telling of the fallen nature of man, in 
his highest present condition. 



J 36 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

And he hides the gaping wound. 

Far in the "West that eve had stood, 

Before an Orrery, 

Two laughing children, while its humble 
maker turned it round, 

Begrimed artisan. 

One to the other telling merrily 

How went the Planets round the Sun— 

And even their times, and distances. 

The urchins knew ; but of the wasting 
thought, and watch, of sleepless centuries. 

To tell them that so trippingly by them- 
selves told off. 

Recked they naught. 

Lo ! on that same spot 

Now stood, all hoary, 

Chaldean and Egyptian sage, and G-reek 
Philosopher, 

Grazing on that Orrery, 

Turning round by hand unseen. 

All sore perplexed ! dismayed ! 

Their ancient wisdom melted all away, 

— Standing midst systems overturned, 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 137 

Consummate, complicate, and straining 
highest faculties of man. 

Or to perceive, or comprehend 

Those old amazed G-hosts 

With them, the Stagyrite ! beholding 
His spheres divine revolving. 
Vanishing out of Heaven, 
And the fixed centre of the universe 
Whirl'd round the Sun! 

Then came a Spirit, slowly, sadly, 



Aged and haggard, with a dungeon's hue, 
stooping with weight of chains — 

And he, too, looked. 

But with a sinking, sickening soul. 

As he beheld the earth, 

In tiny orbit circling round the Sun 

For Gralileo's glory once, had since become 
his shame. 

Quailing Philosopher, 

Through fear of mortal man. 

At bidding of fell blinded bigotry of Priest,* 

* A blasphemous monk preached against Galileo from the 
woi'ds, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heav- 



138 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Of cursed Cardinal, 

On bended knee, 

"With impious tongue. 

And tremulous hand on Holy G-ospel placed, 

And with a heart to Heaven disloyal — 

0, tell it not — 

Yet hear ! 

He had adjured the glorious Truth, 

Itself had taught. 

And falsely swore 

The earth stood still, and round it rolled the 
Sun ! 

•—Beside him see Pythagoras ! — 

And he, two thousand years before. 

Had his Disciples taught. 

Secret, mysterious, that Earth a Planet 
was, 

Circling the Sun, 

But the People told 

That Earth stood still. 

Fixed centre of the Universe. 

And these two, 

en? — Acts, i., 11. See Note, No. XI. — " Galileo among the 
Cardinals." 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 139 

Looked each upon the other. 

ancient Gr hosts I 

Sorely amazed Grhosts ! 

With strangely beaming eyes, 

Fixed still upon that Orrery, 

Vain, vain, your toils profound ! 

Fond dreamings ! Teachings esoteric ! exo- 
teric ! 

The Heavens read falsely with your utmost 
skill ! 

Amid subverted systems standing, 

Grhosts, forlorn, and well amazed 

And yet ye surely are majestic ones, 



Living in men's holy memories ; 
Thales I Pythagoras ! Anaxagoras !=^ 
Socrates ! Plato ! Aristotle ! 
You see me not. 
Trembling in my inner soul, 
So little and so poor. 

You can not see me 

Or you might despise 

Me, and some other Little Ones 

Of this our day. 

* See Note, No. XII. — " Aristotle on Anaxagoras.' 



140 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

! — ^Away Ye ! — Into the oppressed, oppress- 
ing air, 

For Littleness, in G-reatness' presence, trem- 
bling. 

Is perishing. 

Awful G-hosts, away ! 

Lo, puzzled Ptolemy I do espy ! 

His mind all scribbled o'er, 

With centric and eccentric cycle, epicycle, 
orb in orb,^ 

Hopeless in mighty maze, all bewildered. 

Mankind for century on century, bewilder- 
ing helplessly. 

The glorious Heavens such fantastic motion 
giving. 

Provoking kingly blasphemy.! 

Te later Ones I 



* See Note, No. XIII. — " The Angel and Adam's Astro- 
nomical Discourse." 

t Alphonso, phrensied by his vain attempts to comprehend 
the complexities of the Ptolemaic system, impiously exclaim- 
ed, If the Deity had called me to His councils at the Creation, 
I could have given him good advice. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 141 

At length ye come, bringing the light 

Through the dreary night 

Long struggling, through the priestly fear 

That light could light extinguish. 

Truth contradict the Truth ! 

0, foolish fear ! 

Approach Copernicus, Des Cartes I Unhappy 
Galileo ! 

— Yes, once again, repentant one ! — And 
Kepler ! 

In dark night, shining Stars, quickly success- 
ive 

Nay, all at once, the Heavens illumining !^ 

New constellation ! 

G-alileo, with his glass with huger, Her- 

schel — 

* These great men, together with Bacon, Locke, and New- 
ton, appeared within a century and a half of each other. It 
seemed, says Herschel, as if Nature itself seconded the im- 
pulse given to Science ; and, while supplying new and ex- 
traordinary aids to those senses hereafter to be exercised in 
her investigation — as if to call attention to her wonders and 
signalize the epoch, she displayed the rarest, the most splen- 
did and mysterious of all astronomical phenomena — the ap- 
pearance and subsequent total extinction of a new and brill- 
iant fixed star twice within the lifetime of Galileo himself! 



142 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Showing moons, and suns, and stars, 

Infinitely far away 

Purple suns 

Ay, come again, old Grhosts, wondering more 

and more 

Old and New 



With Christian, Pagan mingling, 

Know ye ancient Ones, that these 

Stand on ground higher than that ye stood 
upon — 

Seeing by purer, brighter light than the light 
by which ye saw — 

See, he comes I He comes, 

Radiant Newton all in light arrayed, 

As though from walking 'mid the Stars 

Bearing The Key, 

Opening universal Heavens, though stretch- 
ing through infinitude 

Key to be taken not away again Earnest 

of greater gifts — 

And the G-hosts 

Are looking on ! 

Their eyes intent upon his radiant form 

above them standing, like a Tower 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 143 

— But — I see a shade come over that majes- 
tic brow, 

See him look reproachfully, and sorrowing, 

For a darkened G-reat One comes. 

Who, following his mighty Master through 
the skies, 

Beheld all round the shining prints. 

Of Deity, 

Yet saw Him not ; or, seeing, impiously 
denied ! 

Awful "Worker, midst his works denied 

to be 

And strove to blot the record of his Master's 
glory, 

And to efface theu* brightest character — 

Wherein stood writ his reverence ! 

But now, confuted by Eternity, 

He meekly stands behind the injured One, 
the radiant One, 

Magnificent One, 

The two, like planet with a darkened satel- 
lite* 

As though he heard Archangel telling 

* See Note, No. XIV.—" The Infidel Philosopher." 



144 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Of system, system circling, 

All through infinitude. 

Each vaster system round one vaster far, 

And it around another, all at last, 

Before the throne^ of G-od, 

Inhabiting Eternity, 

With w^hom no G-reat or Little is, 

Nor Few, nor Many, 

Future, Past, 

All One, all Now : 

Upon His throne, sitting in dread majesty — 

His the only Majesty, 

And on His right hand. 

Bow down I bow down ! sink deep in loving 
awe ! 

There sitteth One that stooped to earth. 

The chosen, hallowed scene of Mystery, 

Incomprehensible, and blessed ! 
' That in the flesh the G-odhead veiled a while, 

At once both There and Here 

Touched with the feeling of our Infirmities, 

0, see I — 

Man, and his G-od ! 

* The Lord's throne is in Heaven. — Psalm xi., 4. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 145 

And suddenly to come again ! our Judge 

0, give me mercy in that day, 
In that Great and Terrible Day. 
Savior, think Thou then of him, 
"Who trieth now to think of Thee. 



But now I see, skulking far behind. 
With sullen scowl, or like serpent spirit 
lurking, 



One that wears a triple crown. 
And in scarlet gleaming,^ 
A Prince of Darkness he, 



* I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full 
of names of blasphemy, having seven heads. And the wom- 
an was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with 
gold, and precious stones, and pearls, having a golden cup in 
her hand, full of abomination and filthiness. And upon her 
forehead w^as a name written, Mystery, Babylon the 
Great, the Mother of Harlots, and Abominations of 
THE Earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood 
of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus ; and 
when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. And 
the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel ? I 
will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast 
which carrieth her, which hath the seven heads. The seven 
heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth. — 
Revelations, xvii., 3-9. 

K 



146 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

With a lie in his right hand 5^ 

A counterfeited Key to open and to shut all 
Heaven ! 

The faith of millions he assumed to guard, 

By darkening light, 

Precious and pure ; 

An insect with its tiny wing, shutting out 
sunbeams ! 

As fain it would, 

And with its impious hum 

Silence the mighty voice of G-od 

Unto His creatures speaking 

Loud and plain. 

— Preserving, by corrupting Faith ! 

Sealing the written Will of G-od from eye of 
man; 

And having falsely read it to himself, 

Reading forever falsely to mankind. 

Changing the Truth of G-od into a lie. 

To his eyes, inverted, darkened. 

And sense in strong delusion steeped, 

A Lie believing, 

The Sun, stupendous, all magnificent, 

* Is there not a lie in thy right hand ? — Isaiah, xliv., 20. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 147 

Eolled round its Planet earth the centre of 
the Universe ; 

— ^And he dared, distantly, to look, 

With hleared eye. 

Upon the dazzling one. 

Holding the Key divine, 

Him to chains and dungeon dooming. 

Had that False and Foul one hut the power, 
as will. 

Till the G-reat One threw away his Key, 

And falsified, as one before, the Truth by 
Grod vouchsafed. 

But Newton* strode majestically past, 

Shedding light, 

"While vanished triple crown and crouching 
wearer too,t 



* In the life and writiugs of Newton, the philosopher will 
learn the art by which alone he can acquire an immortal 
name. The moralist will trace the lineaments of a character 
adjusted to all the symmetry of which our imperfect nature 
is susceptible ; and the Christian will contemplate with de- 
light the high priest of science quitting the study of the ma- 
terial universe, the scenes of His intellectual triumphs, to in- 
vestigate, with humanity and patience, the mysteries of his 
faith. — Sir David Brewstek. 

t See Note, No. XV.—" An Extinguished Constellation." 



148 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Soon I beheld the mighty one, listening to 
converse high, 

Plato with Butler, 

And Socrates — but with only seeming drow- 
sy eye— 

0, hark, the Harmony ! 

All of the wondrous Mind, of Mystery, 

Truth, Immortality, 

And Deity : 

And as the Pagan to the Christian listened, 

"With a brightening countenance, me thought 

I faintly heard, in loving sound. Thou wast 
not Far away. 

On the awful threshold standing ! 

— Have ye now seen Him ■ 

The Invisible, 

Jehovah ! in the central glory beaming, Ef- 
fulgence all ineffable 

"Whom mortal hath not seen at any time. 

Or seeing, dies 



Transporting rapturous vision ! 0, art 

thou gone, forever gone ? — — - 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 149 

Where are ye, Spirits ? Grreat and good 

ones — Where ? 

Stand ye now — 



In an ecstasy divine 

Before the Book from Heaven ?- 



i 



0, let me see you once again I And hear 
that converse ravishing the soul ! 

Opening the inner Universe ! 

0, heavenly melodies 

Only for immortal ears. 

And in this home Eternity 

— ^Whither wouldst thou lead me, Thou Un- 
seen ? 

Where am I now ? far, far below, 

As out of Heaven, 

Fallen suddenly. 

* * ^ 

Alas ! there again, great uEschylus ! — 

In thy grandeur all forlorn 

Thy lyre with broken strings — all at thy 
feet 

Grazing on undying Agony, 

Fearfully imaged there. 

Vulture, and man, and rock, 



150 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

He who stole the spark divine, 

Despoiling and defying Jove, 

To light mankind, 

And, guilty teacher so become. 

In spite of angry and deceived Jove, 

All helpless here=^' — 

Lying fast bound, 

Yulture and Man. 

Ah me ! 

There's come a sudden glitter in thine eye ! 

Ay, splendid Spirit ! muse ! and in thy 

mistiest imaginings catch, perchance, at 

length ! a glimpse 

Of True, deep hidden in the False.t 
* ■ ^ ^ 

— ^Whither — ^whither art thou leading 

0, fearful flight, down ! down I to the Past — 

One of the Present, There ! Flight — 

flight — soul-chilling flight 



"■to-" 



* I, tlie hapless discoverer to mortals of all these contriv- 
ances, have nevertheless no device by which I may free my- 
self from these my sufferings! — Prometheus Vincins, 478-9. 

t Rare vestiges — vague presentiments — fugitive tones — 
momentary flashes. — Schlegel. See Note, No. XVI. — 
" Golden Truth in the Mist of Mythology." 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 151 



On — on — on ! 

— ^What's sounding in my ear- 



"Wliat Scenes — * ^ # — ^j^(j ^Jj^q a^e 
these — 

In Babylon ? 

— Lo, People ! — Nations ! — Languages ! — 

Princes ! and G-overnors- — 

Assembled all and there A King 



A Grolden Image ! Hark, a Herald crying ! 
All bowing down — all worshiping — 

^ ^ "^ 

w w ^ 

And Nineveh 

Assyria 

Egypt 

0, what a solemn haze ! But I am passing 

by them all ^ * * 

Samson ! Philistines ! 
Pharaoh ! 



Old ABRAHAIVr- 



What Tower is yonder 

-and a confused multitude ?— 



45: # * 

Again A way ! Away ! — Away ! — 



152 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Am I flying hidden — safe — on an angel's 
wing unseen, 

0, me, 

# * # 

— Troubled, this ancient air my soul is 

cold with awe with fear # # * 

the air is all gone red 

0, Cain— — 
Do I look on thee — with creeping blood? 

0, thou First-born Bloody One! 

What hast thou done? 

"Whither shalt thou go? it Crieth all 

around thy brother's blood I — Out of the 

ground, Into the ear of God. 

First Murderer — Prince of thy bloody Race ! 

The first page of Our History hast thou 
fouled with hand all bloody 

impious one ! First to efface His image 
stamped on Man 

Cain I tortured one ! to endless torture 
doomed ! 

G-reater than thou canst bear 

Cain! — Didst thou see him pass that 

man? — 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 153 

What ! one of thy Sons upon his Father 
looking 

Didst thou note his start so horrihle, and 
his visage, sudden so ghastly grown ? 

No one knowing Him but Thou, 

And his Grod, 

While he felt the secret hloody tie that 
bound him fast to Thee ? 

Did the sight force out the big red drop 

Upon thy Tortured brow, 

Seen by no eye but his, his ear affrighted 
hearing. 

The question first affrighting thee, 

WIie7-e is thy Brother ? 

Around thee for a moment stand 



Faces all to thee upturned. 

Oh, hideous throng! 

Horror all erect in myriad form — 
Thy Ensanguined Progeny 
Known ! Unknown, to man — 

All known to Grod 

The Dread Inquisitor.* 

* When He maketh inquisition for blood, He remember- 
eth them. — Psalm ix., 12. 



154 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 



-0 ye bloody men! your hands are 



full of blood- 



— The fear of Death hath fallen upon me 

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon 
me, 

And horror hath overwhelmed me— ^ — 
Oh that I had wings like a Dove, then 



would I fly away ! 

— Away ! from out this blood-red 

haze 

My sense, my soul, oppressing ! scaring ! 

A CURSE is sounding in the air 

Let me away ! 1 faint — I die all — 

all red — around 

Let me away 0, me ! I — ^have slaugh- 
tered none ! but These may slaughter 

Me 

Let me away ! 

Jt, Jfc. JA. 

W W ^ 

Thanks, gentle Spirit! from that Terror, 
ruddy, 

— ^Already past so far away ! My Bloody 

brother let me see no more ! 

:3& ^ ^ 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 155 

moving sight I 

Melting my heart ! 

sorrowful, awful Sight 

Not far from Eden ! 
Newly, alas ! Driven out !* 

Its heauty in their memory so fresh 

— so fair 



Out of The Grarden, in a Wilderness, 

A desolate, waste, and howling wilderness ! 

Mother of all living. Eve ! 

Adam, Father of mankind ! 

Behold your son Come through six thou- 
sand years, to look on you ! 

How I yearn — to look on you ! 

Your blood mine, my nature yours ! 

Not such as yours — alas! — when in the 
Grarden blessed 

— Of your myriad myriad sons, 



* The statues of Adam and Eve, which appear to the au- 
thor very beautiful, are in the eastern nave. Adam is sitting 
in an attitude of profound grief, his head supported by his 
hand ; Eve is standing beside him in a drooping form, leaning 
on his shoulder, weeping ; and a sei-pent is gliding near her 
feet. 



156 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

I am one, 

Looking on his Father, now ! 

Look on me, sweet Mother Eve ! 

My heart is melting, all with yearning love 
for thee ! 

0, see thy son. 

0, lovely Mother, 

Thy beauteous brow with grief is clouded, 

And thy faultless form. 

So freshly come from Grod, 

~Shrinketh now with shame. 

Thy eyes, so lustrous once, are sadly down- 
cast now, with tears suffused. 

And mine I 

Alas ! I see thine falling fast ! 

Thou lookest not on Adam, by thy side, 
sunk in grievous revery, as amazed 

At the vast height from which he fell so 
suddenly 

Unhappy Eve, thy bosom sighing still ! 

Thou canst not look upon thy lord ^thy 

Fallen lord 

Wilt thou not look on thy poor Son ? 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 157 

Hast thou looked upon Thy Daughters here ? 

All so lovely ! all so gay ! 

Ah, so gay and blithe ! and thinking not of 

Thee 

Didst thou, timidly, fondly, look on them — — 



And think of sorrow and of suffering hy 

thee on them entailed 

"With a melting tenderness, of the thought- 
less, thinking. 

So beautiful, the Beautiful all Fallen, 

Still so beautiful !* 

All passing heedless by ? 

Thou wilt not look on me 



Then Adam, of the whole Earth, Father, 
wilt Thou look upon thy son ? 

On my brethren hast thou looked ? 
Millions ! millions I Thee have passed, 



* Among the most beautiful eulogies on Woman is the fol- 
lowing, by Lord Herbei't: 

Die when you will, you need not wear 
At Heaven's court a form more fair 
Than beauty at your birth has given ; 
Keep but the Hps, the eyes we see, 
The voice we hear, and you will be 
An angel, ready made for Heaven ! 



158 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Sitting here so sorrowful, 

Speaking not to Eve. 

# # ^ 

Some may perchance have stood before 

thee, 

Musing deeply on thy fate, and on Their 
Own, bound up in Thine. 

Six thousand years have passed, and Time 
still lasts. 

And we, thy Sons, are here. 

Trembling while we wait a fearful Voice, 
swearing 

That there shall be Time no longer^ — 

All sunk into Eternity. 

We are Tilling still the ground, whence thou 
wast taken. Father, Cursed for thy sake, 

* And the angel whicli I saw stand upon the sea and upon 
the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him 
that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven, and the 
things that therein are; and the earth, and the things that 
therein are; and the sea, and the things which are therein, 
that there should be Time no longer ; but in the days of the 
voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, 
the MYSTERY OF GoD SHOULD BE FINISHED, as He hath de- 
clared to his servants the prophets. — Revelations, x., 5, 6, 7 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 159 

Eating in sorrow of it, all the days of our 
life. 

In the sweat of our face do we eat bread, 
till we return into the ground. 

As Dust thou wast, and didst to Dust return, 

Even so do we, thy sons. 

Hearing a voice, Return, Ye children of 
men ! 

We spend our years as a Tale that is told I 

Like grass which groweth up I In the 
morning it flour isheth and groweth up, m the 
evening it is cut down, and withereth. 

All flesh is Grrass ! and all the goodliness 
thereof as the Flower of the field ! 

The G-rass withereth ! The Flower fadeth ! 

Because the Spirit of the Lord hloweth 
upon it I 

0, Adam, hear. 

See, the labors of thy sons I 
How we Till, and Toil, and Spin I 
See, see around ! All our strength and wit 
can do, L6 all 
Is here ! 



160 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 



-"Wilt thou not raise thy sorrow-laden 



eye to look around 

"Would it shudder at our Daggers, Swords, 

and G-uns, 

All in gleaming, grim array, 

To wound ! to maim ! to slay ! 

Polished bright! and gemmed so cunning 

ly! — 

Attempered exquisitely !* 

Ay, there — there — ^they lie 

But, thou wilt not see, that which we 



have, although not here 

Grallows and G-uillotine ! 

"We dare not show them here ! 

Thou wilt not look on Cain,t 

Thy murderous First-born, Eve ! 

Standing yonder, 

— Tremble to behold the crimson first-fruits 
of your Fall 

* There is a Spanish sword, of steel, tempered so exqui- 
sitely, that it comes straight out of a circular sheath. When 
returned, the sheath is designed to represent the joined tail 
and head of A Serpent. 

t The statues of Adam and Eve have their backs turned 
toward that representing the Torments of Cain. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 161 

Ever deadly blooming, since. 

the millions countless of thy slaughtered 
sons^ 

Not for Food or Shelter only, nor to Heal, 
labor thy slaving sons 

See purple and fine linen glistening there — 
apparel gorgeous, proudly v^orn, forgetfully ! 

Yonder, sumptuous fare, for dainty pampered 
appetite to fare upon, 

Every day. 

— ^And myriad-formed Idolatry have had, 
still have. Thy sons. 

See, the idols grinning, here and there ! 

And far away is Juggernaut 

But here he hath his representative, Be- 
smeared I 

And we have Dungeons, Chains, and Racks ! 

— ^And our wretched brothers buy and 
sell! 

* Sci-iptural writers date the first war as having been be- 
gun by the impious son of Cain, B.C. 3563. It has been 
computed that, from the beginning of the world to the pres- 
ent time, there have perished on the field of battle about 
seven times as many of the human species as now inhabit 
the whole earth. — Haydx, Dates, p. C24. 

L 



162 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Hast thou seen here the Sick, the Maimed, 
the Halt, the Blind ! 

And hast thou spied thee out the broken 
heart. 

Beneath the smiling face ! 

Or noted Lust ! — ^Ambition ! — Pride ! — and 
Selfishness ! 

The hideous Hypocrite 

Ay, trembling Adam !— Hast thou also seen, 
Before thee, here. Blaspheming scoffer. 

Thy foulest Grod-denying Sons ! 

— Seeing how through the thick disguise we 
wear. 

Else each might deem he looked 

On monsters all ! 

Had ye not. Parents, plucked the fatal 
Fruit 

Bringing Death into the world, and all our 
woes ! — 

Adam, wilt thou tell, 

That dread Mystery in Eden done 



0, Mystery mournful and profound ! 

Didst thou tell it to thy Sons, 

Or thou Eve unto thy Daughters ? 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 163 

We may know it all, one day. 
— But, while I gaze on thy majestic brow, 
Methinks I see the heavy shadow move ! 
A.nd from thy sorrow-laden eyes 
Beams light mysterious, heavenly in its 
urce I 
Of a second Adam telling ! 

Adam ! Eve ! 

Twin founts of woe, of joy. 

Despair, and hope, 

Of death, of life 

Father of mankind ! I hear a voice. 

Solemn, glorious, sounding through my soul, 

Since by Man, 

Came Death, 

So by Man, 

Came the Resurrection of the Dead, 

One is risen from the Dead, 

First fruits of them that slept ! 

And the Fallen-asleep in Christ 

Are not perished. 

As in Adam all die, even so 

In Christ, shall all be made alive. 



164 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 



■Ye Spirits of them that sleep, in sure 



and certain hope ! 

Stand ye sweetly ! awfully ! 

Some around ! 

A moment into Future, am I wrapped ? 

— The little Here, the great ones There — 

The great ones Here, great also There, 

Some shining like the stars 

— Royal One, that rul'st this mighty realm, 

And with meek eye, here, hast looked per- 
chance 

On Adam, Eve, 

As looketh thy poor Subject now — 

So sadly, tenderly, 

Thou, too, lovely Majesty, must die ! 

In Adam die, in Christ be made alive. 

distant be the day, and dust this humble 
hand ! 

But come most surely will That Day, 

"When He, who sent, will thee recall. 

Of thy great rule to give account. 

And as a thousand years ago, from Alfred's 
brow 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 165 

He gently took the diadem, 
So, then, from thine : 
From thy hand the sceptre 
He will take, 

That swayeth gently, equitably, now, 
Millions of mankind. 

And thy anointed head, Queen, must lie 
With the great ones in their stately sleep, 
In the dust a while. 
All to rise, and never sleep again, 
"When the trumpet sounds : 
Raised incorruptible ! 
Mortal putting on 
Immortality ! 

The great, the lowly. Brethren, Sisters, all, 
Adam and his family, 
G-athered finally ; 

Poor trembling Family ! each with all made 
known, 

Each there, as though The Only One ! — 

A gathering of Man, 

Standing appalled 
Before an opened Book, 
And God. 



166 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

# # # 

Nor gem, nor gold, nor silver glitters now 
nor radiant vesture, nor caparison, extin- 
guished in this solemn light. 

Gem, gold and silver. 

And Jewels of fine gold. 

Ruby, crystal, coral, pearl. 

Dazzling millions in the day, 

Dazzle not now The Eyes that through this 
spiritual air are seeing ! 

Enchanted millions, did ye never in this 
Palace pause. 

Looking suddenly, within 

Yourselves ? 

Did the Soul soundly sleep, 

And your sensuous eyes 

See only gold and silver. Jewels of fine gold, 

Huby, crystal, coral, pearl? — 

Saw ye no lesson, written in the Light, 
and all around. 

Plain as Handwriting on the wall, 

Letters shining through the eye, into the 
awakened Soul? 

— Then hath a gem transcending all, 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 167 



Infinitely far, 
Lain all unseen- 



— But hark! a Voice, melodious and sub- 
lime, 

It stirretli not tlie air, as yonder organ's peal 
by day. 

But the Spirits all around. 

Hear That Voice ! and all arrested stand, 

Knowing That Voice I 

— Where shall Wisdom be found ? 

And where is the place of Understanding ? 

Man knoweth not the price Thereof ; 

Neither is It found in the land of the living. 

The Depth saith, It is not in me : 

And the Sea saith, It is not with me. 

It can not be gotten for gold, 

Neither shall silver be weighed for the price 
Thereof. 

The gold and the crystal can not equal It, 

And the exchange of It shall not be for jew- 
els of fine gold. 

No mention shall be made 

Of coral, or of pearls : 

For the price of Wisdom is above rubies. 



168 THE LILY AND THE BEE, 



-Whence, then, cometh "Wisdom ? 



And where is the place of Understanding, 
Seeing It is hid from the eyes of all living ? 

Destruction and Death say, 

We have heard the fame Thereof with our 



GroD understandeth the way Thereof, and 
He knoweth the place Thereof, 

For He looketh to the ends of the earth. 

And seeth under the whole Heaven ; 

To make the weight for the winds, and He 
weigheth the waters by measure. 

When He made a decree for the rain. 

And a way for the lightning of the thunder ; 

Then did He see It, and declare It. 

He prepared It, yea, and searched It out. 

And unto Man He said. 

The Fear of the Lord, that is Wisdom : 

And TO depart from Evil is Understand- 
ing. 

— 0, what blessed Light is beaming 

Radiant as its radiant source ! — 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 169 

A Great Light, shining in Darkness, com- 
prehending not, 

And led by thee, wise and gentle one un- 
seen, I see the Source, 

The Heaven-descended Book ! 

The Book of Books, 

The written record of His will, vouchsafed 
to man 

By the dread Invisible, 

Not, The Unknown. 

With trembling awe I own Him here, 

"Who made me in His image, 

"With will and power enduing. 

That Image to dishonor ! mar ! efface ! 

And HERE hath told me so. 

And, in that telling, told me fearful things. 



■0, mystery — mystery ! 



Where all on earth, in Heaven — within, 

without, is Mystery and mystery, Ordained 

for man 

0, utter, utter darkness all, this Blessed 
Page beyond 



170 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Thick darkness ! Felt : 

Impenetrable darkness : 

Not a flickering ray to cheer — to guide — 
illume 

Mystery I unfathomed ! and unfathomable ! 
terrible 

Soul- 



— Black midnight ! midnight on The 



<!■ ^P •«• 

Horror hath seized me ! 

Spirit ^hast thou then left me ? — 

"Where art thou ? 

"Why, in this dread hour, away? Me left 
behind, all staggering in the fearful dark 

All, all is lost. 

* ^ I nothing know ! nor see ! nor 
hope ! and horribly fear, yet know not what 
I fear I nor why ! 

Nor whence I came ! Into this dreary fan- 
cied Being called ! 0, why ! 

Am I ? Or am I not ? Is Naught around 
0, Conscious Nothingness 

— Deeper and darker still ! Horror more 
horrible I Horror beyond Despair 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 171 

Am I resolving into air — or Nothingness — 
This terror I whence ? This sense of Light, 

Unseen ! of Darkness comprehending not ! 

of unreality amid reality ! reality in un- 
reality I Confusion I All False and yet, 

strange sense of Truth ! The sport of mock- 
ing fiends 

"Would I were not and had not been 

"Where art thou, Death 



Unthroned by Horror ! 

I once could think of thee ! and hope I and 

fear ! Art thou, Death ? Or art thou not 

to me — to any— 

Yet why this fear 

I sink ! In abyss of darkness sinking 



All forgotten forgetting all Per- 
ishing ! Conscious Nothingness uncon- 
scious 



What lightning brightness That 

From far above ? 

From a black profound, swiftly rising 

Am I changed, or all around ? Terrors for- 



172 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

getting all, as though they had not been ! Soul 
tortures ceasing 

I am ! Yet as though a while I had not 
been. 

A balmy air, a holy calm, sweet Light 

By my side again ! Thou ! — — 
Fear is dead, and all is Hope, and hallow- 
ing Love. 

See ! Truth o'er Falsehood standing vic- 
torious, with falchion gleaming, never to be 
sheathed ! 

0, precious. Only Clew through endless lab- 
yrinth, let me never lose Thee more ! 

Where thou art not, all is dark 

Misery, darkness, and disorder all 

Deadened heart, and clouded mind ! exist- 
ence purposeless ! worthless, as unintelligible 
— and poor Life, only a dreamy restlessness 
sadly wandering midst a planless maze 

Light of the World, be Thou my Light, for 
none other is, but Thou 1=^ 

* Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 173 

0, stumbling-block to Jews, and foolishness 
to Greeks, 

Be Power and Wisdom unto Me, 

Light, succor, and support ! 

Dissolving every doubt, that Wisdom wills 
shall be dissolved 

And shedding peacefulness serene 

O'er all the checkered scenes of Life, 

The chances and the changes of this mortal 
life. 

Melting its idle Vanities away. 

Peace ! that passeth understanding ! — 

G-ently sustaining. 

Lighting all through the Yalley, till I sweet- 
ly sleep 

With my dear fellows in the dust,* 

Only my Earthly Tabernacle, 

My dust, with theirs, mingled, a while mys- 
teriously. 



of the world : he that followeth me shall not walk in dark- 
ness, but shall have the light of life. — John, viii., 12. 

* Reflect, saith an old divine, on that day when the earth 
shall be again in travail with her sous, and at one fruitful throe 
bring forth all generations of learned and unlearned, noble 
and ignoble, dust. 



174 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Safe in the keeping of Omnipotence, 
Who made me of that dust, 
Breathing the breath of Life, 
A living Soul become, never to die. 
happy me. 
This is Enough for Me. 
* 

So speaketh He in this blessed Book, 

Linking me to Himself, Unseen, 
Mortal to Immortality, 
And Man to Grod. 

Mercy, Long Suffering ! may I ask, 
All trembling. 

Here hath unbelieving scoffer stood 

Deeming the Truth of Grod a Lie, 

That Wisdom, Groodness, Infinite, 

Seeth Mankind, this Book their Treasure 

deeming 

Inestimable, only Source 

Of Truth, and knowledge of Himself and 

awful Will, 

Mankind whom He endowed with Reason's 

light. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 175 

And love of Truth, 

By Him endowed, the Grod of Truth ! 

Shedding their blood, enduring flame, 

Millions of men ! martyrs, a Noble Army ! 
in the defense of only fancied Truth, 

And million millions more. 

The G-reatly Grifted ones of earth, 

With faculties sublimed by search for Truth, 

All other Truth and Falsehood well distin- 
guishing. 

Not this, though yet of moment infinite, 

Transcending all things else. 

As Eternity transcendeth Time, 

The Humble, and the Lowly, Great, the 
Good. 

All, all alike composed to sleep, 

Like weeping children all. 

With idle dreams, assurances of Sure and 
Certain hope — 

Dim shadows only flickering fearful on the 
dread brink of Nothingness, 

Into which 

They fall, those silly sleeping ones ! — 

Poor living Lies I and dying Lies I 



176 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

In Delusion trusting — fantasy ! Fable cun- 
ningly devised ! 

And foolishly believed, by doting Man, 

Foully deceived man.— 

A Cloud of AVitnesses to Falsehood, 

Deemed The Truth ! 

Transmitting falsehood eagerly, and joy- 

fully, 

From year to year, from Age to Age, 

Still, all the v^ide v^orld oe'r. 

In all the speech confused, of Man 

Almighty Maker of Mankind, forgive the 
Worm, 

Forgive ! 

Not for the sake of that foul worm, 

Blind, impious Man, 

Thus of His Maker madly deeming, 

But for the sake of Him, Thy Son, the Word 
Made Flesh, 

Light of the world, 

True Light, which lighteth every man 

That Cometh into the world. 

Open his Eyes to see ! 



THE LILY A\D THE BEE. 177 

Truth in hallowed mystery, unseen before, 
Beaming into the humble Heart alone, 
Then a Child^ of Light, become 
Thenceforward walking in The Light 

— Stay, Ye Mysterious Ones ! Ye Tenants 

of Eternity Allowed a moment back in 

Time! 

They hear me not ^they see me not 

they feel not with my feeling, 

Think not with my thought, 

Nor with my sense perceive ! 

Stay, 0, Stay ! 

There is a strange confusion — 

Forms, intermingling all. — Yet no uproar, 
but 

A fearful silence 



* There is light enough, said Pascal, profoundly, for those 
whose sincere wish is to see, and darkness enough to con- 
found those of an opposite disposition. This saying will be 
found quoted in an eloquent tract entitled Reason and Faith : 
their Claims and Confiicts ; to the writer of which, Mr. Hen- 
ry Rogers, personally unknown to the author of this volume, 
he heartily expresses his obligations. 

M 



178 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 



I did not hear The Yoice that summoned 
them away 

All gone ! Forever gone, as though they 
ne'er had come ! 

Vanishing Shadows, within a Shadow van- 
ishing ! 

"Whither, 0, whither are ye gone, Departed 
Ones? 

Into Eternity again. 

Leaving me alone in Time I 

— I am alone — 

Again that Tongue, sounding tremendous — 
dying into my soul. 

0, Soul, hast thou then beheld 

In Time, a glimpse into Eternity ! 

^ ^ ^S 

Morn in the Palace ! 

Hark ! — methought I heard a sound ! a lit- 
tle sound — 

A sparrow's chirp ! Sparrow, strayed with- 
in these glassy walls — 

A sparrow from his chirping fellows parted. 

And here, the livelong night — 

In yonder tree he teHanteth alone : 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 179 

He alone, and I alone ! 

— Now a faint rosy light, 

Telling of the splendid Sun approaching 
near. 

Beams through this crystal solitude, 

Melting the solemn shades of night away. 

Yet that light seemeth not to cheer my souL 

I am alone. 

Poor, conscious, half-despised 

Unit of humanity, 

I am alone, 

— Even ghost-deserted now ! 

Where art Thou, dear Mankind ? 

One of Thee, calls on Thee. 

Only learned Poverty, 

A bruised Heart, 

And quivering Fragment of Humanity, 

In this chilly solitude. 

Lying all alone. 

come to him, or let him come to You, 

He thinketh humbly, lovingly of you, and 
would not injure one ! 

Come to him, all alone. 

His fellows on the earth, they are not here, 



180 THE LILY AND TIIK BEE. 

None of the Present, or the Past. 

All gone, and he is here, yearning alone, 

For fellowship with ye, dear Sons of Toil, 
whose handiwork 

Beginneth now again, hut dimly visible, to 
greet his eyes 

Who hath kept such vigil here. 

Come, Brethren, come to me. 

A tear hath fallen, fallen unseen of man, in 
thinking of You all. 

Sleep, sleep, ye sons of toil! scarce rested 
yet, a little longer, sleep : 

For very soon again ye must wake up to toil, 

And many, too, to sigh amid their toil, in 
saddened throng, or sadder solitude. 

me, poor me, I am one of You. 

Poor souls ! dear souls I 

Ordained to look. 

But with blessed, unrepining heart. 

On luxuries 

On splendor, beauty, and magnificence, 

We must not share. 

— My spirit droops. Alas ! 

My days are but as grass. I walk 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 181 

In a vain shadow, disquieting myself in vain. 

I am but as a Flower of the field, 

For soon as the wind goeth over it. 

It is gone. 

And the place thereof 

Shall know it no more. 

— ^Again, poor Sparrow I 
Thy chirp sounds desolate, 
Unknown companion of my night, unseeing 
what I saw ! 

What wilt thou do, little lonely one. 

If once again thou flutterest in the open air, 

Joining thy fellows ? 

The object of Thy little life I can not tell, 

Neither thou Mine. 

Yet know I that which thou may'st never 
know: 

Even thou, poor tenant of the air, but little 
worth ! 

Not even a farthing's worth. 

Art, not one, forgotten before Grod, 

Nor fallest to the ground, unknown to Him, 



182 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Thy Maker, mine, 

Who hath my very hairs all numbered. 

Then we are not alone, 

Little feathered fellow-Being, 

He is here 

But I feel 

Alone with G-od ! 

Trembling awfully alone. 

With that pure Omniscience, all alone ! 

With the Pure, impurity ! 

My steps falter, and my spirit drooping, 
seems to faint. 

I have oft forgotten Him — Not He, me. 

— Sweet sun of early morn ! 

Freshening all nature, sleeping till thou 
wak'st them up, 

Cheering the sons of men 

Wake, too, ye dewy Flowers ! 

Ye, too, deep hidden in the dark, have slept 
the livelong night 

Under your Tree sentinel. 

Night hath passed, and dawns the day ! 

Lily ! lovely Lily ! 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 183 

Here ! — Thou here ! — 

Nature, m the Palace 

Of Art ! 

Grod's handiwork, 

Among the handiwork of Man. 

Himself His handiwork ! 

— Oh, thou loved Presence ! — blessed spu'it 
— with a last vanishing tenderness my heart 
infusing, 

All suhduing, art Thou here, yet once 
again 

Fixing, perchance, on me a lingering look 
of love ? 

Yes, thou mysterious one ! I see ! I see 

The Flower ! 

"Which hath, methinks, some hidden elo- 
quence ! 

Lily, I would speak with thee ! And 
with a thrilling heart I 

Beauteous Intruder ! shall I deem thee 
such ? 

Hither come to see thy Sister, 

All so splendid. 

In her Palace here ? 



184 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

"Why hast thou come ? "What title hast 
thou to be here ? 
Thou Toilest not ! 
Thou Spinnest not ! 

Then why here ? 

Meekly beautiful thou art, * 
That once was mistress of the field ;^ 
But here ! Why here ? 
0, my heart's joy ! 

Lily ! Thou com'st to me, All Through, All 
Down the distant starry heaven, 

A Messenger ! with Heavenly message 
fraught ! 

I see a glory in Thee, Now, 

And bow my head, in reverence. 

0, Queen of Flowers ! 
. Chosen from thy sisterhood, 

So fair and fragrant all. 

Full Eighteen Hundred years ago, 

To wear the Diadem, 

* Like the lily, 

That once was mistress of the field, and flourished, 
I'll hang my head, and perish ! 

Shakspeake, Henry VIIL 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 185 

Then placed upon thy beauteous brow, 

Ever since, The Queen of Flowers ! 

Hail, Queen! 

0, lovely Majesty ! 

Exalted thus, by One 

Who made both thee and Me ; 

And while He trod the earth. 

Its Present Grod, who made both Earth and 
Heaven, 

Pointed with radiant finger to thy faultless 
form, 

But little thought of by his creature, Man, 

And showing Thee to' Him — 

0, Flower of the field ! 

Which to-day, art, 

And art, to-morrow, 

Cast into the oven : 

He who Knows, as man can never know, 

As the Maker knows His work. 

Creator, His Creation ; 

As before Omniscient eye thou stood'st, 

Unconscious, blooming loveliness. 

In Griory all Arrayed, 

Eclipsing Solomon in all his glory ! 



186 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

King, by a Queen ! 

Man, by a Flower I 

Lovely Lily, Queen of Flowers I 

what grace and glory thine ! 

And exhaling fragrance, too ! 

Sweeter, infinitely far, than sweetest of per- 
fumes ! 

neglected Queen of Flowers ! Benignant 
one ! 

Blooming then, and ever since, and now, 

Balm diffusing for the Broken-hearted ! 

Hope for Hopeless ! 

Faith for Faithless ' 

Emblem divine ! 

From thy fragrant bosom stream unseen, 

Into my heart, with care oppressed, with 
trouble laden, 

Sweetness from Heaven ! 

Wisdom ! Gf oodness I 

Pride abasing, raising Lowliness, 

Presumption, and Distrust, 

Reproving with a tender Majesty, 

God, man.* 

* CONSIDKR THE LIHES OF THE FIELD, HOW THEY GROW : 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 187 

Cease, then, aching and repining heart ! 

Come, thou Lily, 

So royally arrayed with G-lory out of Heaven, 

Thou, the Lovely, ever Loved ! 

Thou hallowed, hallowing Flower ! 

Come, thou mystic lovely One, 

Whispering tenderly of Heaven I 

Come, let me humbly press thee to my heart — 

Stilling its throb, and silencing its sigh. 

0, thou sweet Flower ! 

See ! the tears I shed, and all for love of Thee I 

From a heart so overcharged, 

Gently by thyself distilled. 

— Peace, troubled Heart ! 

Before the Flower, whereby. 

One dead, Yet Speaketh, 

Sitting on the throne of G-od, 

Unto the listening heart of Man, 

His Dearly Loved, 



THEY TOIL NOT, NEITHER DO THEY SPIN! AND YET I SAY UNTO 

YOU, That even Solomon, in all his glory, was not ar- 
rayed LIKE one of these. WhEREFORE, IF GoD SO CLOTHE 
THE GRASS OF THE FIELD, WHICH TO-DAY IS, AND TO-MORROW 
IS CAST INTO THE OVEN, SHALL HE NOT MUCH MORE CLOTHE 

YOU, O YE OF LITTLE FAITH ? — Matthew, vi., 28, 29, 30. 



188 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

And Life-Lought Man. 

I hear ! and Make me ever hear ! 

That still .small Voice. 

— So shall I never know Despair, 

Nor see his fell eye fixed on mine. 

Poor ! poor, 'mid all This Wealth, 

Within this Palace all so glorious, 

Truly deemed. 

Standing alone. 

With Grems, and G-old, and Silver, 

Euby, crystal, coral, pearl, 

And all Precious things, 

G- listening every where around : 

If my spirit for a moment falter, 

Lily, I will think of thee. 

And living, hope and love, and patient wait. 

And peaceful die. 

With the Lily on my heart. 

Sweetly stilled, in death. 

So He, Who chooseth Things which are 
Despised, 

Even as I, poor worm, perchance ! 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 189 

Yea, Things which Are not, 
To bring to naught the Things that Are, 
That no flesh should glory in His Presence, 
By this Flower, 
Hath spoken loudly unto Man, 
While proudest Art stands all abashed, as 
naught, in Nature's presence. 
And when He speaks. 
And wherever, 
And in any way He will, 
Silence, Man ! 
And meekly hear. 
Lest haply He should say, 
I have spoke in vain, 
Man will not hear 
His God, 

Here and Now only, 
Will not hear, 
But Hereafter shall. 

So, sweetest of sweet Flowers, I softly press 
thee yet again. 

With a tremulous hand, 

Unt-o a loving, chastened heart, 



190 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

By Affliction chastened, sometimes sore. 

Come, let me gently take thee reverently 
from parent earth, 

For thou art freshly sprung from Grod : 

And looking here around, with all undazzled 
eye. 

While fade away these little Things of Man, 

Time, sense. 

Then fix my steadfast gaze on thee, 

0, Lily, 

A Son, upon the emblem blooming. 

Of an Almighty Father's Power and Love. 



THE LILY AND THE BEE. 191 



[To the Spirits.] Well done; — avoid; — no 

more I This is most strange ! — 

You do look, my son, in a moved sort I 
Be cheerful, Sir. — These our actors, 
As I foretold you, were all Spirits, and 
Are melted into air, into thin air : 
And like the baseless fabric of This Vision, 
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces. 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; 
And like this unsubstantial Pageant faded. 
Leave not a rack behind 1 

Gro then, Thou grand One of the Present, 



grandly into the Past. 
And for the Future, 

Leave no trace behind, but in the Mind, 
Enriched, expanded, and sublimed. 
Only a noble Memory, 
Be thou, to sensuous eye, 
Quickly, as though thou hadst not been. 
Let the place that knows thee now, 
Know^ thee no more. 



192 THE LILY AND THE BEE. 

Let the grass grow again, where grew the 
grass so short a while ago. 

Let the wandering winds blow freely o'er 
the site where shone so late, 

The gleaming "Wonder of the World. 

Let world-wide pilgrims come. 

In all time hereafter, unto this sceptered isle, 

This little world. 

This Precious Stone set in the silver sea. 

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this 
England, 

To that green spot: 

And, pointing to their sons, all grown in- 
credulous, say. 

Here It stood. 



NOTES, 



NOTES. 



No. I. 

Napoleon and Leibnitz on Egypt. 

" Soldiers," said Napoleon, on landing in Egypt, " you are 
about to undertake a conquest fraught with incalculable ef- 
fects upon the commerce and civilization of the world. You 
will inflict upon England the most grievous stroke she can 
sustain before receiving her death-blow !" Upward of a cen- 
tury before, the great Leibnitz, with profound political fore- 
sight, urged on Louis XIV. the conquest of Egypt. " The 
possession of Egypt," said he, " will open a prompt commu- 
nication with the richest countries of the East. It will unite 
the commerce of the Indies to that of France, and pave the 
w^ay for great captains to march to conquests worthy of Al- 
exander. Egypt once conquered, nothing could be easier 
than to take possession of the entire coast of the Red Sea, and 
of the innumerable islands that border it. The interior of 
Asia, destitute of both commerce and wealth, would range 
itself at once beneath your dominion. The success of this 
enterprise would forever secure the possession of the Indies, 
the commerce of Asia, and the dominion of the universe!" 

No. IL 

The Modern Pharaoh in the Red Sea. 

" Had I perished in that manner, like Pharaoh," said Na- 
poleon, " it would have furnished all the preachers of Chris- 
tendom with a magnificent text against me." — Alison, vol. 



196 NOTES. 



iv., p. 617. The eloquent historian, in speaking of Egypt and 
its central position between Eastei-n wealth and Western civ- 
ilization, observes : " The waters of the Mediterranean bring 
to it all the fabrics of Europe ; the Red Sea wafts to its shores 
the riches of India and China ; while the Nile floats down to 
its bosom the produce of the vast and unknown regions of Af- 
rica. When, in the revolution of ages, civilization shall have 
returned to its ancient cradle — when the desolation of Mo- 
hammedan rule shall have ceased, and the light of religion il- 
lumined the land of its birth, Egypt will again be one of the 
great centres of human industry, the invention of steam will 
restore the communication with the East to its original channel, 
and the nation which shall revive the Canal of Suez, and open 
a direct communication between the Red Sea and the Medi- 
terranean, will pour into its bosom those streams of wealth 
which, in every age, have constituted the principal sources of 
European opulence." — Ibid., p. 546, 547. Mr. Robert Ste- 
phenson is now engaged upon this great project. 

No. III. 

Scipid's Tears. 

For seventeen days the city was in flames ; and the num- 
ber exterminated amounted to 700,000 souls, including the 
women and children sold into slavery ; so that this scene of 
horror served as an early prelude to the later destruction of 
Jerusalem. The wiser and more lenient Scipios had been 
against this war of extei-mination, and had had to contend 
against the self-willed rancor of the elder Cato; yet a Scipio 
conducted this war, and was the last conqueror over the ashes 
of Carthage ; and this was a man universally accounted to be 
of a mild character and a generous nature. But this must 
be apparently estimated by the Roman standard ; for, when- 
ever Roman interests were at stake, all mankind, and the 
laws of nations, were considered as of no importance. — Schle- 

GEL. 



NOTES. 197 



No. IV. 

The Esq7iimaux Qicestion. 

" I read one day out of the New Testament," says John 
Beck, one of the Moravian missionaries, "to some of the na- 
tives w^ho came to me, while I was copying out part of a 
translation of the Gospels, the history of our Savior's agony 
on the Mount of Olives, and of his bloody sweat. One of the 
pagans, whose name was Kajarnak, stepped up to the table, 
and said with a loud, earnest, and affecting voice, How is 
that ? Tell me that once more ! for I fain would be saved 
too ! From that hour he became a disciple of the missiona- 
ries, and a willing and able instrument in propagating the 
Christian doctrine among his countrymen." 

No. V. 

Prince Albert on the Mission and Destiny of England. 

"We are met at an auspicious moment, when we are cele- 
brating a festival of the civilization of mankind, to which all 
quarters of the globe have contributed their productions, and 
are sending their people; for the first time recognizing their 
advancement as a common good, their interests identical, their 
mission on earth the same. And this civilization rests on 
Christianity; could be raised on Christianity only; can be 
maintained by Christianity alone : the blessings of which are 
now carried by the society, chartered by that great man Wil- 
liam III., to the vast territories of India and Australasia, which 
last are again to be peopled by the Anglo-Saxon race. I feel 
persuaded that the same earnest zeal and practical wisdom 
which has made our political constitution an object of admi- 
ration to the nations, will, under God's blessing, make her 
Church likewise a model to the world. Let us look upon 
this assembly as a token of future hope ; and may the har- 
mony which reigns among us at this moment, and which we 



198 NOTES. 



owe to having met in furtherance of a common holy object, 
be, by the Almighty, permanently bestowed upon the Church ! 
We are met to invoke the continuance of the Divine favor ; 
pledging ourselves not to relax our efforts to extend to those 
of our brethren who are settled in distant lands, building up 
communities and states, where man's footsteps had first to be 
imprinted on the soil, and wild nature yet to be conquered to 
his uses, those blessings of Christianity which form the foun- 
dation of our community and of our state." 

The above are some very striking and memorable passages, 
taken from the opening address of H. R. H. Prince Albert, as 
president of the third jubilee meeting of the Society for the 
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, held in London 
on the 17th of June, 1851. 

No. VI. 

The New Mediterranean. 

The British North American possessions greatly exceed 
those of the U. States, comprising 4,109,630 square geograph- 
ical miles. The terrestrial globe contains about 37,000,000 
of square geographical miles. Besides this land surface, Brit- 
ish North America contains 1,340,000 square miles of water! 
As clearly as the Mediterranean Sea was let in by the Straits 
of Gibraltar to form the main chaimel of communication and 
the great artery of life to the Old World, so surely were the 
vast lakes of Canada spread in the wilderness of the New, to 
penetrate this mighty continent, and carry into its remotest re- 
cesses the light and the blessings of Christian civilization. — 
Alison, vol. xiii., p. 273; Malte Brun, ix., 129, 143; Bal 
Bi, 926. 



199 



No. VII. 

The ^^ Philosopher' s Stone.'''' 

The method of coming at these results is so admirably il- 
lustrative of the Baconian procedure, by observation and ex- 
periment, and appears to the author so profoundly interesting 
and instructive, that he has taken some pains to present the 
reader with an authentic account of it. The stone in question 
was transmitted to this country a few months since by a Ca- 
nadian geologist, who, not being a naturalist, entertained no 
suspicion that the marks which had arrested his attention were 
traces of an animal. He thought them likely to have been 
produced by the trail of a long sea-weed. He requested our 
far-famed zoologist, Owen, to examine the mysterious marks, 
and decipher them, if he could. After much thoughtful scru- 
tiny, that gentleman found them to be small prints, occuri-ing 
in regular succession, in pairs, extending in two parallel lin- 
ear series, with a continuous groove midxoay between them. 
Then he observed that one of the prints was larger than the 
other in each pair, and that both the larger and smaller print 
were short and broad, with indications of toes at their fore 
part, and that the intervals between each pair, of the same 
side, were much less than those between the right and left 
pairs. Hence he inferred that the impressions in question 
must have been produced by some animal, that had crawled 
or walked along that oldest of sandy shores ; that such animal 
had been a quadruped, having the hind feet lai-ger and wider 
apart than the fore feet — both fore and hind feet being very 
short ; and that the limbs of the right and left side were wide 
apart ; wherefore the creature must have had a short and 
broad trunk, supported on short limbs, with rounded and 
stumpy feet, capable of taking only short steps. Then as to 
the midway groove: he at first suspected that it might have 
been produced by the trail of a tail. The impression was 
well defined throughout, midway between the right and left 



200 NOTES. 



limbs; shallower where the footprints indicated a steady rate 
of motion — (how delicately exact the observation !) — deeper 
where that motion had been retarded, and the animal's body 
had rested a while on the sand. Hence the sagacious natu- 
ralist concluded that this midway groove impression must 
have been made by some hard, projecting covering of the 
belly, such as would be made by the breastplate of a tortoise. 
The broad trunk ; the short steps ; the stumpy feet hardly ca- 
pable of canying the trunk clear of the ground — all this de- 
ducible solely from these faint footprints — seemed to bespeak 
the tortoise. Experiment succeeded Observation. Owen 
betook himself to Lord Bacon's realized Atlantis, the Zoolog- 
ical Garden in the Regent's Park, and caused the living rep- 
tiles there to crawl over soils carefully prepared, so as to re- 
ceive and retain distinctly the traces of their transit. The 
tortoise was found to have left impressions almost identical, 
or very closely resembling those preserved in the ancient 
rock; which had been ascertained to belong to the first-form- 
ed class of rocks, deposited from the sea. Prior to the discov- 
ery of this stone, geologists had not obtained evidence of the 
existence of any but the lowest organized plants and animals, 
such as zoophytes and marine moUusca, in these rocks. This 
stone may therefore be regarded as an exponent of indefinite- 
ly remote antiquity, referring high organization to a period 
infinitely beyond all previous supposition, or even imagina- 
tion. The traces of the showers which may have beaten on 
the tortoise, as suggested in the text, were sagaciously de- 
tected by an eminent living geologist, and deciphered from 
impressions made by the rain-drops falling on the soft sand; 
and the direction of the wind then blowing by the unequal 
depth of the rain-pits, and the unequal height of its little cir- 
cular wall, as the shower struck, obliquely, the ripple-rufiled 
surface. It is only on a tidal shore that such impressions can 
be received and retained ; received during the ebb, and cov- 
ered by fresh layers of fine sand at the flood. The traces of 
the ancient showers and winds, hov/ever, are not seen on the 



NOTES. 201 



specimen deposited in the Crystal Palace, but on others now 
in London. 

No. VIII. 

Ancient Monsters. 

There is no apppearance in nature, and nothing in geology, 
says Mr. Ansted, that can illustrate, by progressive develop- 
ment, the gx'adual derivation of new types or well-marked 
groups, each of higher organization than those which pre- 
ceded them — a gradual development of higher types of ex- 
istence in a certain order of creation. So far as geology, in 
its present state, affords evidence on the subject, the facts 
seem decidedly opposed to such an idea ; and this conclusion 
is in perfect accordance with those arrived at by the most 
philosophical of living naturalists, Owen, who thus closes his 
investigation concerning the extinct reptiles. " Thus, though 
a general progress may be discerned, the interruptions and 
faults — to use a geological phrase — negative the notion that 
the progression has been the result of self-developing ener- 
gies adequate to a transmutation of specific characters ; but, 
on the contrary, support the conclusion that the modifications 
of osteological structure which characterize the extinct rep- 
tiles were originally impressed upon them at their creation, 
and have been neither derived from improvement of a lower, 
nor lost by progressive development into a higher type." — 
See Ansted's Ancient World, p. 54; and Owen's Report on 
British Fossil Reptiles. The author of the present volume 
begs leave to commit the subject of this note to the reader's 
best consideration. 

No. IX. 

The Bee Mystery. 

After all, say those eminent entomologists, Kirby and 
Spence, there are mysteries as to the primum mobile among 



202 NOTES. 



these social tribes, that, with all our boasted reason, we can 
not fathom, nor develop satisfactorily the motives urging them 
to fulfill, in so remarkable though diversified a iBanner, their 
different destinies. One thing is clear to demonstration, that 
by these creatures and their instincts the power, wisdom, and 
goodness of the great Father of the universe are loudly pro- 
claimed — the atheist and infidel confuted — the believer con- 
firmed in his faith and trust in Providence, which he thus be- 
holds watching with incessant care over the welfare of the 
minutest of His creatures ; and from which he may conclude 
that he, the prince of the creation, will never be overlooked 
or forsaken. And from them what lessons may be learned 
of patriotism and self-devotion to the public good — of loyalty, 
of prudence, teinperance, diligence, and self-denial. 

No. X. 

The Bee and the Infinitesimal Calcnhis. 

The geometric form of each cell constructed by the Bee is 
absolute perfection, as far as w^e are able to judge of the ob- 
jects had in view, and has excited the admiration and amaze- 
ment of ancient and modern mathematicians. At what pre- 
cise angle the three planes of the hexagonal prism ought to 
meet, so as to secure the greatest strength and commodious- 
ness with the least possible waste of matei-ials, is a problem 
of the highest mathematics, resolvable only by the aid of the 
infinitesimal calculus, or problems of maxima and minima. 
Maclaurin, the worthy disciple of Newton, by a fluxionary 
calculation, succeeded at length in determining the required 
angle precisely. It was the very angle adopted by the Bee ! 

No. XL 

Galileo among the Cardinals. 

" Corde siucero, et fide non fictd abjuro, maledico, detestor, 
supradictos errores et hereses!" said the unhappy philoso- 



NOTES. 203 



pher; but, on rising fiom his knee, he stamped his foot, as if 
suddenly stung with a consciousness of his guilt, and ex- 
claimed passionately, E pur si muove — It moves, notwith- 
standing ! On this afflicting and deeply humiliating incident, 
Sir David Brewster has eloquently written thus: Galileo ab- 
jured, cursed, and detested those eternal and immortal truths 
which the Almighty had permitted him to be the first to es- 
tablish. What a mortifying picture of moral depravity and 
intellectual weakness ! If the unholy zeal of the assembled 
cardinals has been branded with infamy, what must we think 
of the venerable sage, whose gray hairs were entwined with 
the chaplet of immortality, quailing under the fear of man, 
and sacrificing the convictions of his conscience and the de- 
ductions of his reason at the altar of a base superstition ! 

No. xir. 

Aristotle on Anaxagoras. 

Concerning Anaxagoras, Aristotle has left a grand saying 
on record. After recounting the philosophers who had re- 
spectively made the various elements the first cause of all 
things, and declaring how uncouth it would be to refer such 
mighty results as creation to accident or spontaneous motion, 
he says : When, therefore, there appeared one saying that, as 
in animate, so in inanimate nature, Mind was the First Cause 
of the Universe, and of all its order, he seemed like a sober 
man among those who before him had been talking at ran- 
dom ! — oLov v^(j)0)V E(pdv7] Trap eIkt) "kiyovTag rovq npoTspov. — 
Metaph., Book i., chap. 3. 

No. XIII. 

The Angel and Adam's Astronomical Discourse. 

These, it may be almost superfluous to state, are the expres- 
sions used by Milton {Paradise Lost, Book viii.) to designate 
the Ptolemaic system of astronomy. Tlie angel and Adam 



204 NOTES. 



discuss, in fact, the leading features of the Ptolemaic and Co- 
pernican systems — one making Earth, the other Sun, the cen- 
tre of the universe. The angel inclines to Copernicus, but 
pronounces for neither, exhorting Adam to apply himself to 
what more immediately concerned him. Milton, as already 
noted, died twelve years before the magnificent discovery of 
Newton. 

No. XIV. 

The Injidel Philosopher. 

This portion of the text brings a heavy charge against the 
memory of La Place ; but it is only too well founded. It is 
fearful and revolting to record of such a man, perhaps the 
greatest of all astronomers except Newton, that he sought to 
banish God Almighty out of the heavenly world which He 
had permitted him to scan so exactly. Throughout the whole 
of his Systeme du Monde (a synopsis of the Newtonian phi- 
losophy), he carefully abstains, says a distinguished British 
philosopher, from all reference to a contriver, Creator, or 
governor of the universe ; in pointed contrast to the sublime 
reflections with which the noble Newton accompanied his 
revelations. Thus spoke that mighty one, in his immortal 
Principia : " God is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and om- 
niscient; that is. He endures from everlasting to everlasting, 
and is present from infinity to infinity. He is not eternity or 
infinity, but eternal and infinite. He is not duration or space, 
but He endures, and is present. He endures always, and is 
present every where, and by existing always and every where, 
constitutes duration and space." La Place, on the contrary, 
would wretchedly insinuate that the doctrine of a Deity, the 
Maker and Governor of this world, and of His peculiar at- 
tention to the conduct of man, is not consistent with truth J 
And that the sanctions of Rehgion, long venerated as the great 
security of society, are as little consistent with justice. The 
duties which we owe to this imaginary deity, and the teiTors 



NOTES. 205 



of punishment in a future state of existence for the neglect 
of them, he I'egarded as fictions invented to enslave mankind. 
He has given abundant proof of these being his sentiments, 
developing their horribly-blooming deadliness, be it remai-k- 
ed, in the time of the French Revolution. I was grieved, 
said the philosopher already referred to, with touching sim- 
plicity, when I first saw M. de la Place, after having so hap- 
pily epitomized the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton, conclude 
this performance with such a marked and ungracious parody 
on the closing reflections [some of them given above] of our 
illustrious master. As the scholars of Newton, as the dis- 
ciples of our illustrious master, we will join with him in con- 
sidering, unlike La Place, universal gravitation as a noble 
proof of the existence and superintendence of a Supreme 
Mind, and a conspicuous mark of His transcendent wisdom. 
La Place would resolve every thing into irresistible opera- 
tion of the primitive and essential properties of matter, and 
insist that it could not be any thing but what it is. He la- 
bors assiduously to effect this impression on the mind ! Nay, 
he impiously insinuates that the supposed useful purposes of 
the solar system might have been much better accomplished 
in some other than the existing mode ! He was spared long 
enough, however, as we learn on unquestionable authority, 
to entertain awful misgivings on this subject. In the solitude 
of his sick chamber, and not long before his death, came Re- 
flection ; and with it, salutary results. The eminent gentle- 
man on whose authority this fact rests, Mr. Sedgwick, has re- 
cently recorded, that not long before the death of the great 
Frenchman — for great he was, though darkened — he was in- 
quiring of the distinguished geologist concerning the nature 
of our endowments and our course of academic study. He 
then, says Mr. Sedgwick, dwelt earnestly on the religious 
character of our endowments ; and added (as nearly as I'can 
translate his words), " I think this right; and on this point 1 
deprecate any great organic changes in your system; for 1 
have lived long enough to know — what at one time I did not 



206 NOTES. 



believe — that no society can he upheld in happiness and honor 
without the sentiments of Religion. ^^ 

The marquis had also endeavored to resolve the religious 
convictions of his great predecessor into the delusions of old 
age, or an intellect disorganized by madness ; and this es- 
pecially with reference to his work on the Prophecies. Sir 
David Brewster, however, has annihilated the injurious cal- 
umny by infallible proof that Newton was always a devout 
Christian, and had commenced his researches on the proph- 
ecies when in the plenitude of his marvelous intellect — in his 
forty-ninth year. In the inscription on his monument in 
Westminster Abbey, it stands truly recorded, that " he was 
an assiduous, sagacious, and faithful interpreter of Nature, An- 
tiquity, and the Holy Scriptures : he asserted in his philoso- 
phy the majesty of God, and exhibited in his conduct the 
simplicity of the Gospel." The author would close this note 
with an expression of his pi'ofound conviction that he who 
can not see, in the operations of nature, Supreme Intelligence 
may regard himself as laboring under mental imbecility or ju^ 
dicial blindness. 

No. XV. 

An Extinguished Constellation. 

A century hence, if the world should last so long, men will 
hardly be persuaded to believe the history which tells them 
that Newton, Bacon, Locke, Leibnitz, Des Cartes, and 
Milton, with many other names glittering brightest in the 
roll of Fame, are stars struck out of the firmament, blotted 
out of the Roman Catholic mind, or foully disfigured and mu- 
tilated by the Romish Church, that unchanged, unchangeable 
enemy to the progress of the human mind ; which, in order 
to make men false Christians, would thi-ow them into second 
childhood. Sir Robert Inglis said, truly and picturesquely, 
a quarter of a century ago, Every other institution is ad- 
vancing, with sails set and banners streaming, on the high 



NOTES. 207 



yet still rising tide of improvement; the Church of Rome 
alone remains fixed and bound to the bottom of the stream 
by a chain which can be neither lengthened nor removed. 

No. XVI. 

Golden Truth in the Mist of Mythology . • 

Hov^ever much, observes Schlegel, amid the growing de- 
generacy of mankind, the primeval word of Revelation may 
have been falsified by the admixture of various errors, or 
ovei'laid and obscured by numberless and manifold fictions, 
inextricably confused, and disfigured almost beyond the power 
of recognition, still a profound inquiry will discover in hea- 
thenism many luminous vestiges of primitive truth. We find 
in the Grecian mythology many things capable of a deeper 
import and more spiritual signification ; appearing as but rare 
vestiges of ancient truth — vague presentiments — fugitive tones 
— momentary flashes — revealing a belief in a Supreme Being, 
an Almighty Creator of the universe, and the common Father 
of mankind. In Prometheus, says that able scholar, Mr. 
Keightley, in his excellent Mythology, we have a Grecian 
myth of the fall of man, and in Pandora the introduction of 
evil into the world by means of a woman. According to 
Buttman and other eminent Germans, the resemblance be- 
tween this myth and the Scripture narrative of Eve and the 
forbidden fruit " is so very striking, that one might be induced 
to regai'd it as a rivulet from the original fount of tradition." 



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